US actor Hartley Sawyer fired from ‘The Flash’ after racist, misogynist tweets resurface
Tuesday, 09 Jun 2020 12:19 PM MYTHartley Sawyer's old racist and misogynist tweets angered social media users.
Sawyer, who played Ralph Dibny joined The Flash in 2017, has been receiving backlash from netizens over his insensitive tweets especially amid the nationwide protest against the systemic racism in response to George Floyd’s death.said that although Sawyer’s Twitter account had been deleted, screenshots of his old posts in 2012 and 2014 have been shared by many Twitter users.
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