Multiple employees, from teachers to firefighters, have lost their jobs or are on leave due to statements about the death of Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk.
School employees in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Mississippi and Pennsylvania are currently under investigation for what they wrote on social media regarding Kirk’s death.
One teacher in South Carolina was fired for a post that read, “Thoughts and prayers to his children but IMHO America became greater today. There I said it,” according to The Hill newspaper.
A teacher in Oregon wrote that Kirk’s assassination “brightened” up his day.
Kirk was killed at a rally at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
Kirk had become one of the most influential voices on the right in recent years, notably founding Turning Point USA, with chapters at universities across the country and hosting speakers’ summits for young conservatives.
The U.S. Secret Service put an agent on leave after he posted on social media that Kirk “spewed hate and racism on his show.”
“Let me be clear, politically motivated attacks in our nation are increasing — seemingly every day,” Secret Service Director Sean Curran said in a statement, according to CBS News. “The men and women of the Secret Service must be focused on being the solution, not adding to the problem.”
Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn called for the agent, Anthony Pough, to be terminated from his position.
“As our nation mourns the devastating loss of Charlie Kirk, a rogue @SecretService agent posted on Facebook suggesting that he deserved to be murdered,” Blackburn wrote on X. “I am calling for this agent’s immediate termination. It’s time to root out the rot in the Secret Service.”
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