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‘Law & Order’ Creator Dick Wolf Fires Writer for Racist Rants

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June 2, 2020
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Dick Wolf will not tolerate racial intolerance on his watch. The “Law & Order” creator fired writer Craig Gore from the TV franchise’s upcoming spinoff for posting racist rants about looters.

In response to the protests and unrest surrounding the killing of George Floyd, Los Angeles resident Gore, seen in photos holding a gun with the caption “Curfew…” wrote, “Sunset is being looted two blocks from me. You think I won’t light mother——s up who are trying to f— [with] my property I worked all my life for? Think again…”  The post has been deleted.

“I will not tolerate this conduct, especially during our hour of national grief. I am terminating Craig Gore immediately,” Wolf said in a statement.

Gore falsely claimed to be a co-executive producer on the spinoff, which will star Christopher Meloni, reprising his role as Elliot Stabler, now heading an organized crime unit in the NYPD.

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