Texas Woman Fired From Job Over 'Offensive' and 'Very Racist' Ferguson Facebook Post

A Texas woman lost her job this week after the hospital she worked for discovered a controversial Facebook post she made that some and called racist.

"The police need to just start mowing them down with machine guns, purge them," the unidentified woman wrote on her personal Facebook page.

This January 30, 2014 photo taken in Washington,DC, shows the splash page for the social media internet site Facebook. (AFP Photo/Karen Bleier)

That comment didn't sit well with some people.

"Very racist," one man, who didn't want to be identified, told KHOU-TV. "I was highly offended."

[sharequote align="center"]"Very racist."[/sharequote]

He soon learned the woman worked at Memorial Hermann Southeast hospital.

"It shouldn't be tolerated when you're a professional," he told the Houston outlet. "A hospital is a place where you're supposed to have compassion upon people of all races."

The post gained traction and was eventually shared multiple times until the hospital learned about it and took immediate action.

"People were pretty upset about it," the man told KHOU.

The hospital fired the woman, calling it "offensive" and alerting the public she had been laid off through twitter.

A non-nurse employee posted an offensive comment. MH absolutely disagrees with that post. We have a 107yr history of serving everyone.

— Memorial Hermann (@memorialhermann)

August 19, 2014

The individual is no longer an employee of Memorial Hermann. We cannot disclose any further information.

— Memorial Hermann (@memorialhermann) August 20, 2014

According to KHOU, the woman's post was later removed.

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