We Got Receipts: Mass Firings Across America After Charlie Kirk's Death as People Celebrate Assassination
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We Got Receipts: Mass Firings Across America After Charlie Kirk's Death as People Celebrate Assassination
A wave of terminations has swept across the United States as employees, teachers, and healthcare workers face consequences for celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination. From Office Depot managers refusing to print memorial posters to professors showing murder footage to 10-year-olds, Americans are losing their jobs after publicly cheering on violence. The firings span multiple industries and states, revealing a cultural moment where corporations, universities, and hospitals are drawing hard lines against employees who celebrate political murder. These individuals claim their free speech is under attack, but employers are treating celebration of violence as a liability they cannot afford.
Office Workers, Teachers, and Healthcare Professionals Terminated for Celebrating Violence
Multiple Americans have been fired from their jobs after publicly celebrating or expressing indifference to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The firings have occurred across various sectors including retail, education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations, sparking debates about free speech, employment ethics, and the boundaries of political expression.
Office Depot Manager Refuses Memorial Poster
An Office Depot incident went viral when a print supervisor and manager refused to print a memorial poster for a prayer vigil. The poster read "The Legendary Charlie Kirk 1993 to 2025" and featured his photograph. The print supervisor, identified as Frell, declared the memorial poster to be "political propaganda" and refused the order.
"It's not propaganda," the customer explained. "This is for a prayer vigil tonight for somebody that passed."
The manager maintained their position, stating, "That's political propaganda unfortunately."
After the incident went viral, Office Depot issued a statement expressing deep concern about what occurred at their Michigan location and terminated the manager involved. The company determined that refusing to print a memorial poster for a deceased individual represented a significant liability to their brand.
Nonprofit Worker Loses Educational Equity Position
One woman was fired from her nonprofit job focused on increasing educational equity to students after posting a video stating she didn't care about Charlie Kirk's death. She had previously worked teaching reproductive health to LGBTQ youth and youth in foster care in Dallas, Texas.
"Yesterday at 5:00 p.m. I was fired from my job for posting a video saying I don't care about Charlie Kirk's death," she explained in an emotional video. "In the video that I posted, I specifically said I wasn't celebrating it, but that I just don't care. And yet I was still fired from a job where my role was to increase educational equity to all students. That wasn't really just my job. It was like my identity too. Like that's been my whole career."
Her employers determined that being around children while expressing indifference to political murder was incompatible with her role.
International Employee Terminated After Boss Calls From Japan
Another individual received a call from their boss in Japan informing them of their termination. In an expletive-laden response video, the person expressed disbelief that "somebody making fun of an internet personality" would result in job loss, adding that "conservatives keep losing" and calling those who reported the content "cowards."
The individual appeared unaware that cheering on murder could constitute grounds for termination and later deleted the original video celebrating Kirk's death, though not before it had been reported to corporate headquarters.
AAA Employee Fired After Celebrating Assassination
A worker at AAA was terminated for celebrating Kirk's murder and recorded herself saying goodbye to co-workers as she was required to leave the premises immediately. "I was like a little shocked, but then after I was like, forget this," she said. "I feel relieved. I feel very relieved."
She expressed hope for unemployment benefits, apparently unaware that employees terminated for cause typically do not qualify for unemployment compensation, unlike those who are laid off. The woman later revealed she had been fired from a previous job in 2018 when an employer discovered she had voted for Trump.
Teachers Show Murder Video to 10-Year-Olds
In one of the most disturbing incidents, a teacher forced 10-year-old students to watch the Kirk assassination video repeatedly. The teacher has been suspended pending investigation. School officials acknowledged that showing such graphic violence to young children was completely inappropriate and potentially traumatic.
In an even more extreme case, a Mariposa County Unified School District teacher and a College of Sequoia biology instructor told students he watched the assassination video on loop for an hour and expressed hope that "everyone in this family dies and their children and their grandchildren and their grandchildren and their grandchildren to eternity."
A student who recorded part of the incident said, "I just was very disgusted. I couldn't even stay in the class. I walked out and I was just brought to tears because as someone that watched the video and saw how terrible it was, it just made me so uncomfortable to see that someone could say something like that."
The instructor was placed on administrative leave, and a full-time employee took over the course.
Three Clemson University Faculty Members Removed
At Clemson University in South Carolina, three professors were removed from their positions after making social media posts about Kirk's assassination. One employee was fired, while two faculty members were removed from teaching pending investigation into their online activity.
The Clemson College Republicans responded to the situation: "First, an acknowledgement that these are not their First Amendment rights under attack, but instead their employment under attack. They signed and agreed to follow the same code of ethics that we do as students, that all other members of faculty do, and they have violated that code of ethics."
Outside the board meeting at the Madrin Center, protesters called on Clemson University to reinstate the employees and faculty members and to protect all faculty from what they termed "rights violations." The protesters argued that the terminations represented censorship, while others maintained that celebrating violence violated professional ethics codes.
Healthcare Workers Face Consequences
At Englewood Hospital in New Jersey, a registered nurse named Lexi encountered a doctor celebrating Kirk's death in a nurses' station. The doctor, later identified as Dr. Matthew Young, was reportedly saying how Kirk "deserved it" and "had it coming to him."
Lexi confronted the doctor, pointing out the ethical contradiction: "You're a doctor? How is it? How are you saying this as a doctor that someone deserved to die?"
Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, which includes the principle of "first do no harm," making celebration of murder particularly problematic for medical professionals. After Lexi reported the incident to management and posted about it on her private Instagram, she was pulled into a meeting and suspended without pay indefinitely pending investigation. Her union representative told her to look for another job.
Lexi filed a lawsuit immediately. In her statement, she wrote to Dr. Young: "You are sick and I'm not going to sit back and hear it. Let me know if anyone can get the story to the news because his patients deserve to know what kind of compassion he truly lacks for human life."
The story went viral, and Lexi was ultimately reinstated as a nurse. Dr. Matthew Young officially resigned from Englewood Hospital.
Washington Post Columnist Fired for Misquoting Kirk
A Washington Post columnist was terminated after attributing fabricated racist quotes to Charlie Kirk. The writer claimed Kirk said, "Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot."
However, Kirk never said these words. In the actual clip the columnist referenced, Kirk was criticizing affirmative action policies after several prominent figures publicly acknowledged they benefited from such programs. Kirk stated: "If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called the racist. But now they're coming out and they're saying it for us. They're coming out and they're saying, 'I'm only here because of affirmative action.' Yeah, we know you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously."
The "you" in Kirk's statement referred to those who were self-identifying as affirmative action beneficiaries, not to black women as a group. He was responding to public statements like the one from a public figure who declared: "I rise today as a clear recipient of affirmative action and particularly in higher education. I may have been admitted on affirmative action both in terms of being a woman and a woman of color, but I can declare that I did not graduate on affirmative action."
Kirk's criticism was directed at the policy of affirmative action itself, not at individuals based on their race. The Washington Post columnist's misrepresentation was deemed an egregious lie attempting to portray Kirk as making genetic arguments when he was actually criticizing a specific policy.
Free Speech Versus Employment Consequences
Many of those terminated claimed their First Amendment rights were being violated. However, legal experts and observers pointed out that freedom of speech protects individuals from government prosecution and arrest for their speech, but does not protect employees from consequences imposed by private employers.
One commentator noted the irony: "Suddenly, liberals are champions of free speech. Except they want the freedom to cheer on and incite harm to others. Whereas Trump supporters defended their rights to question COVID policies and allegations of election fraud. We are not the same."
This represents the same defense that Democrat voters used to purge Trump supporters from social media platforms in previous years, making the current complaints about free speech particularly contentious.
Employers See Celebration of Violence as Liability
Across industries, employers determined that employees celebrating political assassination represented unacceptable liability. Schools saw teachers promoting violence as incompatible with education. Healthcare facilities saw doctors and nurses cheering murder as violations of medical ethics. Corporations saw employees celebrating assassination as threats to their brand reputation.
A local news report cautioned viewers: "In the age of social media, where fleeting thoughts live forever online, all users should think twice before making personal opinions public. People don't understand that freedom of speech protects you from being arrested and put in jail for what you say, but it doesn't protect you from losing your job if you're irresponsible."
The wave of firings reveals a cultural moment where major institutions are drawing clear boundaries around celebrating political violence, regardless of which political figure is targeted. Democrats who celebrated the murder found themselves without the institutional support they expected, losing jobs and facing consequences they had not anticipated.
Lack of Self-Awareness Among Those Terminated
Many of those fired demonstrated what observers called a complete lack of self-awareness. One individual wrote on social media: "Sir, my only intolerance is for hatred. We cannot spew hatred and expect to be met with kindness." This person was literally justifying murder for speech while simultaneously claiming to be intolerant of hatred.
Another person fired for celebrating the assassination later posted emotional videos invoking faith: "I know that everything happens for a reason. And I may not know right now what that reason is, but eventually God will reveal that to me." This same person had openly cheered the murder of one of the most prominent Christian personalities in America.
The cognitive dissonance displayed by many of those terminated suggested they had internalized political messaging to such a degree that they genuinely believed their actions were justified, only to face real-world consequences when employers disagreed.
Charlie Kirk's Actual Interactions Contradict Racist Claims
Despite attempts to paint Kirk as racist or hateful, documented interactions show a different picture. In one exchange at a public event, Kirk warmly greeted a black woman with a baby: "How are you? What a beautiful kid that is. Thank you. What a gift from God."
When the woman asked about welfare reform and helping poor families pursue the American dream, Kirk responded without mentioning race initially: "The number one objective of any social welfare program should be how do we keep the family together and put dads back in the family."
He only mentioned race when citing statistics: "Unfortunately, in the black community, dads are the most absent of any community, about two-thirds of all black youth will be raised without a stable father around. And that little precious angel of yours deserves to have a father around."
Kirk's point was about policy incentives: "As we remove dads from families, government has come in and has taken the place. Some people need help and they need social assistance. All of that should be about incentivizing the dad staying around, not the dad leaving."
Even when defending the nuclear family and critiquing the welfare state, Kirk framed issues around policy and statistics rather than reducing problems to skin color, presenting himself as someone wanting better outcomes for impoverished black Americans.
Democrats Provide No Support for Those Fired
Despite the political nature of the controversy, Democratic Party organizations and officials provided no support for those who lost their jobs after celebrating Kirk's assassination. The individuals who believed they were advancing Democratic talking points found themselves abandoned when facing employment consequences.
One observer noted: "All these people who are cheering on murder, who are cheering on assassinations, the Democrats don't care about you. They don't care if you get fired or arrested. You believe their party's lies that they fed to you so that they could win elections."
Many of those terminated appeared to be aspiring content creators hoping to gain social media followers by reproducing anti-Trump talking points. Instead, they lost their livelihoods while the political establishment they supported remained silent about their situations.
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