Employees Fired, Suspended for Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Death

Airline pilots, educators, and retail workers have been fired or suspended, while users continue to flag offending posts on social media.

Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, speaks at the High School Leadership Summit, a Turning Point USA event, at George Washington University in Washington on July 26, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

Multiple companies across the United States have issued warnings to employees that they won’t have a job to go back to on Monday if they post comments celebrating or mocking the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

The affected professions range from educators to airline pilots. One of the more prominent early cases was the firing of MSNBC analyst Mike Dowd on Sept. 11, the day after Kirk was fatally shot at a Utah university.