INDIANAPOLIS -- A former Ball State University employee is suing the school's president after she said she was wrongfully terminated after a recent Facebook post surrounding the shooting death of Charlie Kirk.

Suzanne Swierc, the university's former director of health promotion and advocacy, filed the lawsuit in Indianapolis federal court on Monday against Geoffrey Mearns, the president of Ball State University. The lawsuit claims that the university violated Swierc's First Amendment right to free speech.

According to previous reports, Swierc made a post on her Facebook page following Kirk's death, stating that "although Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy and although she prays for his soul, his death is a reflection of the hatred, fear and violence that he sowed."

"Let me be clear: if

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