Riot Games, the Santa Monica-based video game developer behind League of Legends, has terminated employment of a senior staff member after the executive posted a Facebook note about George Floyd
the news, it included an image of Floyd with an overlay of white block text that read, in part, "The media and the left have made George Floyd into a martyr. But who was he really?"
"We’re aware of an offensive social media post made by a Riot employee and have launched an investigation," the statement read. "We’ll say firmly that the sentiment in that image is abhorrent, against our values, and directly counter to our belief that addressing systemic racism requires immediate societal change, which we detailed in the
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