{"id":225300,"date":"2026-04-09T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:07:07","slug":"associate-medical-examiner-on-leave-over-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225300\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate medical examiner on leave over social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Duval County Medical Examiner Bob Pfalzgraf has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/09\/associate-me-on-administrative-leave-while-city-investigates-social-media-post-about-president-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">placed on administrative leave<\/a>, the city of Jacksonville confirmed to News4Jax on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A city spokesperson said Pfalzgraf will remain on leave \u201cwhile we investigate the circumstances\u201d around a social media post on Pfalzgraf\u2019s X account.<\/p>\n<p>The post appeared to be about President Donald Trump. It was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/2041403282703237397\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">captured in a screenshot<\/a> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cLibs of TikTok\u201d<\/a> X account. (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BobPfalzgraf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Pfalzgraf\u2019s X account<\/a>\u00a0is protected, and posts can be seen only by approved followers.)<\/p>\n<p>The post, which was made just after 12 a.m. on Monday, read: \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the big beautiful obituary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment appears to be a reference to Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful Bill.<\/p>\n<p>Pfalzgraf is a pathologist who received his medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He has been with the Duval County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office since March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This story was produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News4Jax<\/a>, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associate Duval County Medical Examiner Bob Pfalzgraf has been placed on administrative leave, the city of Jacksonville confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-225300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}