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TONIGHT. A LOCAL PROFESSOR CLAIMS SHE WAS FIRED OVER A RECENT SOCIAL MEDIA POST. THANKS FOR JOINING US AT TEN. I’M GUY RAWLINGS AND I’M CARLA WADE. SHE CLAIMS THAT THE ACTIONS OF HER FORMER EMPLOYERS, THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AND AUBURN UNIVERSITY, VIOLATED HER FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH. IT’S WHY SHE’S NOW SUING BOTH SCHOOLS. WVTM 13 ERIN LLEWELLYN IN STUDIO TONIGHT. WHAT DOES SHE THINK GOT HER FIRED? ERIN. YEAH. CARLA. DOCTOR CANDACE HALE SAYS THAT SHE MADE A POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY THAT CHARLIE KIRK PASSED AND SAID THAT SHE WOULD NOT MOURN HIS DEATH. SHE SAYS THAT SOME PEOPLE FEEL HIS VIEWS ARE CONTROVERSIAL, BUT HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NEVER TAKEN. NOW, SHE SAYS THAT THAT POST COST HER HER JOB AND NOW SHE’S FIGHTING TO GET IT BACK. ANGER MY RIGHT TO SPEAK. WAS VIOLATED. RAGE. I HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM ONE INSTITUTION. LIKELY FACING RESIGNATION FROM ANOTHER INSTITUTION. SADNESS AND DISAPPOINTMENT. OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS SOMETHING THAT ALL OF US ARE ARE GUARANTEED, NO MATTER WHO WE ARE. OR SO DOCTOR CANDACE HALE THOUGHT. THAT IS UNTIL SHE SAYS SHE FOUND OUT SHE WAS FIRED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AND PUT ON LEAVE AT AUBURN UNIVERSITY. CHARLIE KIRK’S VOICE CAN BE HEARD AND THE WHOLE WORLD CAN HEAR THE DISPARAGING THINGS HE HAS TO SAY. THEN THE WORLD SHOULD BE ABLE TO HEAR WHAT AUBURN UNIVERSITY AND WHAT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALABAMA DID TO ME. NOW SHE’S FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST BOTH ALABAMA AND AUBURN, CLAIMING HER FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED. IF THIS IS WHAT I HAD TO DO TO GET THEM TO HEAR ME, THEN SO BE IT. HALE SAYS SHE MADE THIS POST ON SEPTEMBER 11TH AFTER SHE FOUND OUT TURNING POINT USA CO-FOUNDER CHARLIE KIRK DIED. I WAS JUST LIKE, OH MY GOD, THIS MAN IS SUCH A BIGOTED, RACIST. I MEAN, ALL THE ISMS THAT YOU COULD THROW AT SOMEONE, HE FIT AND CHECKED EVERY BOX IN HER POST THAT SHE SAYS WAS ONLY POSTED FOR HER FACEBOOK FRIENDS TO SEE. SHE SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST AND SAID SHE WOULD NOT WARN THE WICKED. I SAW SO MANY PEOPLE JUST TALKING ABOUT, OH, THIS GOOD MAN HAS NOW PASSED OR HE WAS ASSASSINATED. AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT GOOD MAN? THIS IS NOT A CHRISTIAN MAN. CHRISTIANS DON’T DON’T DO THIS. HALE SAYS SHE GOT A CALL FROM HER SUPERVISOR FIVE DAYS AFTER THE POST WAS MADE, TELLING HER THE PRESIDENT DIDN’T TAKE TO IT. WELL, I DIDN’T SAY I WISHED HE WAS DEAD OR I’M GLAD HE WAS DEAD. I JUST AM NOT GOING TO MOURN SOMEONE WHO VERBALLY AND PUBLICLY DISPARAGED ANY PERSON THAT DIDN’T LOOK LIKE HIM, HALE SAYS. THE DOOR MAY BE CLOSED ON HER CAREER AT ALABAMA, BUT SHE WON’T STOP SPEAKING UP UNTIL EVERYONE’S RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED. MY VOICE IS MY POWER. MY WORDS ARE MY WEAPON. NOW. WE DID REACH OUT TO BOTH THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AND AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOR COMMENT ON HALE’S LAWSUIT, BUT WE HAVEN’T HEARD BACK YET AT THIS TIME. AS SOON AS WE HEAR ANY