{"id":144420,"date":"2026-01-22T08:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144420\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:25:21","slug":"fresno-state-lecturer-returns-after-being-placed-on-leave-for-comment-about-charlie-kirks-death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144420\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State lecturer returns after being placed on leave for comment about Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Fresno State student lecturer previously placed on leave over comments about the death of Charlie Kirk has returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Action News was told that they resumed teaching for the spring semester, which began last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The university did not provide any additional comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/fresno-state-lecturer-leave-disturbing-comment-charlie-kirks-death\/17825294\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fresno State lecturer on leave after &quot;disturbing&quot; comment about Charlie Kirk&#039;s death;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fresno State lecturer on leave after &#8220;disturbing&#8221; comment about Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After Kirk&#8217;s death last September, a video circulating online appeared to show the lecturer making a remark during class.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno State called a comment made &#8220;disturbing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the time, Action News did not independently verify the video&#8217;s authenticity, but it was viewed hundreds of thousands of times and sparked strong reactions from students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fresno State student lecturer previously placed on leave over comments about the death of Charlie Kirk has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8595,72249,20391,112,114,113,742,72248,37451],"class_list":{"0":"post-144420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-action-news","9":"tag-additional-comment","10":"tag-charlie-kirk","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-fresno-state","15":"tag-kirk39s-death","16":"tag-lecturer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}