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The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit supporting a Georgia teacher who said that the "world is a bit safer without him," referring to Charlie Kirk , the Turning Point USA founder who was assassinated in September.

The lawsuit , filed by the SPLC and the Georgia Association of Educators on behalf of Michelle Mickens, a teacher at Oglethorpe County High School, alleges her free speech rights were violated for posting that the world was "safer" without Kirk.

In a reply to a post that Mickens, who was a 2022 Georgia Teacher of the Year finalist, made about Kirk, she wrote, according to the lawsuit, "While I’m sad that we live in a country where gun violence is an epidemic, the world is a bit safer without him. I

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