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Teacher fired for criticizing deadly riots in Chicago files civil rights lawsuit
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From The Washington Times:
A Chicago-area teacher has filed a civil rights lawsuit against her former school district, which fired her after she criticized deadly Black Lives Matter riots in Chicago last year on her personal Facebook page.
Jeanne Hedgepeth, who taught for roughly 20 years at Palatine High School in Illinois, commented on the violent Black Lives Matter riots that occurred across the country after George Floyd, a Black man, died while in police custody in Minneapolis.
In Chicago, 82 people were shot, and 19 died over that weekend.
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