Jemele Hill Suspended by ESPN After Response to Jerry Jones<br />Jemele Hill, the “SportsCenter” host on ESPN whose tweets last month calling President Trump a white supremacist caused the White<br />House to call for her firing, was suspended on Monday for once again running afoul of the company’s social media policy.<br />Jones was asked about Vice President Mike Pence, who attended an Indianapolis Colts game earlier in the day<br />but walked out after about two dozen players with the visiting San Francisco 49ers knelt during the national anthem.<br />ESPN said in a statement that Hill was suspended for “a second violation of our social<br />media guidelines.” She will not appear on television for the next two weeks.<br />Pence later tweeted, “I left today’s Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event<br />that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem,” referring to Trump.<br />John Skipper, ESPN’s president, wrote an internal memo emphasizing<br />that employees were allowed to participate in public discussion of political matters, but in doing so must abide by the company’s social media guidelines.<br />After her tweets about Trump last month, Hill, who is African-American, expressed regret<br />that the posts had “painted ESPN in an unfair light” but did not otherwise apologize.<br />Pence, who flew from Las Vegas for the game and then traveled to Los Angeles later<br />Sunday, was criticized for what many felt was a premeditated political stunt.
