One of the assistant professors who was fired from Clemson University for a post he shared in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination is now suing the school.

Joshua Bregy, who was an assistant professor in Clemson's Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences since January 2023 when he was fired, filed the suit in federal court Friday along with the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina. Bregy, whose lawsuit says he received consistently received positive evaluations from students and his department chair, is suing to get his job back as well as back pay.

Following Kirk's slaying, Bregy shared a post written on another Facebook profile that said "I'll never advocate for violence in any form, but it sounds to me like karma is sometimes swift and ironic. As Ki

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