Felicia Sonmez's editor still called her Kobe Bryant tweets 'ill-timed,' but determined that the reporter was “not in clear and direct violation of our social media policy.”
A Washington Post reporter’s suspension has been lifted after she was put on administrative leave for tweeting about Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault case just hours after the NBA star was among the nine people reported dead in a fatal helicopter crash on Sunday in California.
Sonmez wrote in a follow up tweet that 10,000 readers had flooded her work email with abusive comment and death threats. — Today in Mavs Facebook January 27, 2020 Tracy Grant, managing editor of The Washington Post, told MarketWatch in an emailed statement on Monday that Sonmez had been suspended pending an investigation into the online incident.
Sonmez did not immediately respond to a request for comment. She revealed in an interview with the Erik Wemple Blog that she had emailed Grant and her editor, Peter Wallsten, about the threats she was receiving — including someone who had posted her address, which led her to check into a hotel on Sunday night. She was ordered to delete the tweets. Then in a phone call with Grant, she was told that she was being placed on administrative leave, effective immediately.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 January 27, 2020 Let me get this straight: Felicia Sonmez makes some perfectly fair comments about Kobe Bryant's legacy, gets harassed for them, and the @washingtonpost railroads *her* for sharing a pic of her toxic email inbox.— Steve January 27, 2020 Still, others celebrated Sonmez’s suspension.
It should be noted that Keys was among those criticizing Sonmez on Twitter, including a post that called her posts “crass” and ended with, “Bye Felicia.”
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