From the NY Post: Felicia Sonmez posted a link to a 2016 Daily Beast report headlined “Kobe Bryant’s Disturbing Rape Case” as the world was coming to come to terms with the basketball legend’s death in Sunday’s fiery chopper crash in California.

Her since-deleted tweet sparked huge outrage — with Sonmez saying that “10,000 people” had commented and “emailed me with abuse and death threats,” according to the Daily Mail.

“Well, THAT was eye-opening,” she wrote about the barrage of hate mail, stressing that she was not connected with the article she tweeted, screenshots of the messages show.

“Any public figure is worth remembering in their totality even if that public figure is beloved and that totality unsettling,” she insisted.

They'd better damn well not fire her - Bryant was categorically one of those covered in the #MeToo campaign. This is an obit thread so that's enough said. A rape accusation doesn't deserve a death sentence.

From Wikipedia: Bryant admitted to a sexual encounter with his accuser but denied the assault allegation. The case was dropped after Bryant's accuser refused to testify in the case. A separate civil suit was later filed against Bryant by the woman. This was settled out of court and included Bryant publicly apologizing to his accuser, though admitting no guilt.