PA Official Resigns After Copying Musk’s Nazi Salute

CBS News reports:

A local elected official in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has resigned after coming under fire for a video shared on social media. Laura Smith resigned from the Towamencin Township Board of Supervisors after a video in which she mimicked a gesture made by Elon Musk.

In a statement announcing her resignation, she said the video she posted “has been greatly mischaracterized” and said she has taken down the video.

“The views expressed in [Smith’s] TikTok video are in direct conflict with the mission and principles upheld by the Montgomery County-Public Library, its Board of Trustees, staff and the community it serves,” the library system said in a statement in part.

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