OSKALOOSA, Iowa -- An Iowa teacher who was fired after posting on social media in the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting death is suing the school district and its superintendent.

Oskaloosa community members filled the school district's school boardroom Wednesday night as they took up now-former art teacher Matthew Kargol's termination.

In an eight-page lawsuit against the Oskaloosa Community School District and Supt. Michael Fisher, Kargol's attorneys say his post on a personal Facebook account was "rhetorical hyperbole."

The lawsuit says the post was not made in the classroom or during working hours, and it did not threaten anyone or incite imminent unlawful action and was not directed at anyone in the school community.

What came after the post, as mentioned in the lawsuit, is people

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