Vandals who threw paint on a Confederate statue in Springfield, Missouri should be "hung from a tall tree with a long rope," a Missouri lawmaker wrote on Facebook earlier today.State Representative Warren Love (R-Osceola) rapidly deleted the post, but not before it got shared a few times — and not before it was spotted by Democrats.
The Missouri Democratic Party is now calling for his resignation.
“This is a call for lynching by a sitting State Representative," the party said in a statement issued this evening. "Calls for political violence are unacceptable.…