News Anchor Resigns After Being Suspended Over On-Air Charlie Kirk Tribute

‘I believe I am the first to be targeted for honoring him on air,’ WICS-ABC20 News anchor Beni Harmony said.

Items left at a memorial for Charlie Kirk at the headquarters of Turning Point USA in Phoenix, Ariz., on Sept. 15, 2025. Eric Thayer/Getty Images

A WICS-ABC20 News anchor in Springfield, Illinois, has announced that she is resigning from her position after her employer suspended her for paying tribute to the late Charlie Kirk on air.

Beni Harmony paid an impassioned tribute to Kirk, whom she knew personally, during a Sept. 12 segment on ABC20’s Marketplace program.