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EXCLUSIVE– A former Illinois TV anchor said she gladly quit her job rather than have to be silent about the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Former WICS-ABC20 Springfield anchor Beni Rae Harmony spoke to Fox News Digital about resigning after she was suspended for airing a tribute to Kirk last Friday and refusing to remove it from her social media accounts.

Harmony previously worked at Turning Point USA, the conservative advocacy group Kirk founded at age 18, from 2021 to 2022.

"I said, ‘Well, I'm not gonna stick around for that.’ I said, ‘I resign, and I refuse to be silenced. I refuse to be told I cannot talk about someone that I cared about,’" Harmony said, describing what she told her bosse

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