Harris County prosecutor, TikTok influencer ‘Chef Way’ resigns after backlash over tweets

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Wesley, known online as Chef Way, issued a statement Tuesday, apologizing for the comments made on social media seven years ago, saying he had joined in on an online trend denigrating Black woman while battling alcoholism.

Waymond Wesley, known on TikTok as “Chef Way," resigned from the Harris County District Attorney's Office, saying backlash to recently resurfaced Tweets denigrating Black woman had become a distraction to the office.A prosecutor at the Harris County District Attorney's office has resigned following a furor earlier this month whenWaymond Wesley's resignation was announced Tuesday in a statement from the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

Wesley was hired in March 2021 and recently assigned as a prosecutor in the Misdemeanor Trial Bureau. Wesley posted a short statement on his social media accounts on Jan. 9, in which he said the offensive comments he made on Twitter date back to a time when he was"sick in more ways than one." "If ur deeply sorry than why are you and your girlfriend blocking anyone who mentions it on tiktok...also ur oxtail pasta look like hamburger helper," one Twitter user wrote in response.Some of 'prison TikTok's' biggest stars converged in Houston's EaDo. Here's how it went.

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