JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A small sampling of emails related to two East Tennessee State University professors' social media posts in the wake of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's death offer a glimpse into the tension surrounding the remarks.

Those messages include three emails calling for the professors' firing and one email urging ETSU President Brian Noland to approach the matter "with the greatest restraint and even-handedness." Also included is an email that included a Facebook post with one of the professors' home address listed and a call for people to go to his house "and tell him and his family what you think of hos (sic) hateful rhetoric."

News Channel 11 filed a public records request just days after the controversy flared on Sept. 11, the day after Kirk's death, by t

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