An Ohio man is receiving backlash after he compared a lawsuit to lynching in a social media post on Feb. 8.
Christopher Hicks, a member of the Clermont County Republican Central Committee, posted an image of a man being lynched on Facebook, our news partners at WCPO-9 reported .
He posted the photo alongside the case number of his lawsuit against the committee for sanctions against him.
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“The post has to do with what I really think is abhorrent, is mob justice, and so the imagery I used on there of a lynching was related to mob justice,” Hicks said.
He said he’s the target for trying to weed out corruption in his party and is suing the Clermont County Republican Central Committee.
The Cincinnati NAACP sent a letter to the committee on Feb. 15 calling on them to denounce Hicks.
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The Clermont County Executive Party Chairman, David Painter, responded to the NAACP the next day.