Washington Post editor and columnist Karen Attiah said Monday she had been fired after more than a decade at the paper over comments made since Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting — a dismissal being criticized by the newspaper's union and free speech organizations.

Attiah alleged on her Substack page she was fired for "speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America's apathy toward guns."

"I did my journalistic duty, reminding people that despite President [Donald] Trump's partisan rushes to judgment, no suspect or motive had been identified in the killing of Charlie Kirk — exercising restraint even as I condemned hatred and violence," she wrote.

The Washington Post, in response to an inquiry from USA Today, said it wouldn't discuss personnel matters.

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