A former Eastern Florida State College employee is suing the school after she was fired for her social media posts about the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk .

Erika Santos, who worked in accounting and grant compliance at Eastern Florida since 2019, was terminated in October. She filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on Wednesday.

Santos, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, claims the Brevard County college retaliated against her for expressing her First Amendment right to free speech and discriminated against her for her political viewpoint.

“We all have the right to free speech, and you don’t lose that when you work for the government,” said Michelle Morton, an ACLU attorney.

The college did not fi

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