California college lecturer reinstated after remarks about Kirk's taking pictures

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A California college lecturer has returned to the classroom after being positioned on paid administrative depart for saying she wished Charlie Kirk had been killed shortly after he was shot final 12 months.

According to the Fresno Bee , Barri Brennan, a Fresno State College communication lecturer, was again within the classroom on Tuesday, the second day of instruction within the spring semester.

"My courses went effectively, and I stay up for the remainder of the semester," Brennan informed the Bee.

Fresno State didn't reply to Fox News Digital's request for remark. The college confirmed to the Bee that Brennan was instructing this semester, however declined to remark additional on her return to campus or any investigation into Brennan’s remarks.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated final September on the age of 31. (Alex Brandon/The Related Press)

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Brennan was captured in a recording on Sept. 10 sharing her ideas about Kirk’s health situation shortly after being shot and previous to affirmation of his dying.

"You need to know what I feel? It’s too dangerous he’s not lifeless," Brennan mentioned. "Gonna put my political beliefs proper on the market. And that’s precisely what I believed. He’s simply shot? I used to be like, he’s not lifeless? I don’t even know who he's. Only a description of him. Don’t care."

The feedback had been reportedly made throughout an off-the-cuff and personal dialog.

Kirk was shot whereas talking at an occasion at Utah Valley College in Orem, Utah. He was pronounced lifeless later that day.

One scholar in Brennan’s class, Lara Habib, informed The Collegian that the incident "felt very uncomfortable" and that college students reacted with awkward pauses and uncertainty.

A California lecturer, who was positioned on depart for wishing Charlie Kirk was killed shortly after he was shot, has returned to the classroom.

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"Her feedback, made after Kirk had been shot however earlier than information of his dying had been confirmed by authorities, had been made throughout an off-the-cuff, personal dialog previous to the beginning of a category and had been secretly recorded. Parts of the dialogue had been later posted to social media," the Bee reported.

The college posted a press release on its web site condemning the feedback shortly afterward.

"Fresno State is conscious of a video circulating on-line that seems to report a lecturer making a disturbing remark concerning the dying of Charlie Kirk . The college has launched an instantaneous investigation into this incident," the college mentioned.

"We condemn, within the strongest potential phrases, any language that celebrates or condones violence. Such remarks are antithetical to our values at Fresno State," they added.

A tribute to Charlie Kirk is proven on the Jumbotron earlier than a NASCAR Cup Sequence auto race, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, in Bristol, Tennessee. (Wade Payne/AP)

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Following the assertion, Brennan was positioned on depart. She is underneath contract via Might 2027, based on the Bee. Upon returning to Fresno State, based on the report, she modified the course syllabus to disallow utilizing digital recording units.

Brennan wrote concerning the incident final October for the Bee, saying she "by no means supposed to imply something past an opinion; nevertheless distasteful some may discover it." She spoke critically of the unnamed scholar who recorded her, saying it was unlawful.

"What that scholar did by illegally recording me at school sullies the educational classroom expertise for each college students and school. I concede that my phrases didn't signify my finest self, however what that scholar did to the integrity of the classroom expertise was way more nefarious," she wrote.

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Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox Information Digital.

Joshua focuses on politics, schooling coverage starting from the native to the federal degree, and the parental rebellion in schooling.

Becoming a member of Fox Information Digital in 2019, he beforehand graduated from Syracuse College with a level in Political Science and is an alum of the Nationwide Journalism Middle and the Heritage Basis's Younger Leaders Program.