Lebanon, tenn. (WKKRN) – Two staff at Cumberland University are no longer with school, after leaders called the “inappropriate comments” about the death of a conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
So far this week, a member of the Student Supervision and Behavior Bureau of the Central Tennessee State University has been dismissed, two members of the Eastern Tennessee Faculty of Tennessee, and an employee of the Nailed Metro Nashville Dispatch, was appointed administrative leave, all for social media reports related to Kirk death.
“Celebrating or wanting death is not okay, despite your political party,” said Reagan Becquet, a protest organizer and UT Chattanooga student.
Students gathered outside the Camerland University, calling for action after they said that two university campus leaders Michael Rex and Max Wood announced a celebratory or hatred of Kirk’s death on the Internet.
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“I just don’t think a person who is in such a position should be in the classroom, learning young generations,” said Morgan Stearman, a protest and student at Cumberland University.
“They have the right to opinion about their beliefs and what they are, but when it comes to taking life or someone’s abolition, I don’t think it is something that should be done easily,” said a student at Cumberland University.
Jason Lawson’s News 2, a lawyer for Wilson County, said:
“In the early this morning, I canceled my future guest lecture performance at Cumberland University. Personally and as a district lawyer, the most cooperated with an organization where the employee celebrates the crime, especially as terrible as this one.
By noon on Friday, the University confirmed on the Internet that it no longer holds them.
“Their records were not as we expected as an example, but especially a member of the faculty, but also a member of the staff, and had to do it for our students,” said dr. Paul push. “I believe they just made a mistake. It was a pathetic and significant enough mistake we felt that we needed to talk to them.”
Wood later posted an apology on the Internet: “Yesterday I made a Jerk’s reaction tweet to the tragedy. It does not reflect who I am or where I am actually standing, and I am very sorry that I have created a twist. Since I represent not only myself, I need to ensure that I represent the morals/values of the fully representing me. ”
“I think they regretted their decisions,” he said. “They both apologized to me personally.”
Disputes also encouraged the university to revoke a planned lecture cycle with former MSNBC political collaborator Matthew Dowd after his own comments about Kirk.
“We need to be very careful and justified about what we publish in social media or any other media, even by email,” said PusM. “We have to choose our words carefully because words can hurt.”
“If we for the first time we make people settle, we can eliminate such problems,” Becquet said.
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“It just reminds everyone that we have to be considered higher standards, especially when we are in a leading position,” concluded Becquet.
News 2 contacted both Wood and Rex through its social media accounts and did not hear this publication.
The Mayor of Wilson County Randall Hutto issued a statement saying:
In recent days, I have spent a lot of time in thinking and prayer about the events happening in our nation. Although many talked, I was silent that the responsible persons would make decisions accordingly. Charlie Kirk’s death tragedy is incomprehensible. A video that continues to play in social media is unimaginable, and our university staff is unacceptable that they are not speaking, and not compassion, but the decision is unacceptable. One voice of the body does not reflect the whole body, and this is obvious in this case. Our attention should be focused on the family of Charlie Kirk, 3,000 plus students who were this terrible act, and what allowed our nation to experience the tragedy almost daily. Today, please join me in prayer – for our nation, our community and our own hearts. Can we be people who speak love, treat goodness and humbly lead. Together we are salt and light that this world is so much needed.
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