Fresno State lecturer faces criticism after social media posts show Trump in coffin

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Fresno State lecturer is present nether occurrence for societal media posts showing President Trump successful a coffin.

"It's the information that she states our president was dormant and that Republicans were dead," Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld told Action News.

He is criticizing Katherine Shurik, highlighting a Facebook station successful which Shurik appeared to privation decease connected the president, Elon Musk, and Republicans, whom she called Nazis.

Bredefeld took to societal media, equating Shurik with "hate-filled, extremist lunatics," saying they person "no concern teaching anywhere."

"I volition support her First Amendment close to bash so," Bredefeld said. "I person a First Amendment close to knock her, and I do."

Action News saw Shurik connected Saturday arsenic she protested extracurricular a Tesla dealership successful Northwest Fresno.

She displayed a poster for an upcoming protestation and said she would grant students other recognition if they attended.

"I conscionable don't deliberation these are the benignant of radical we privation teaching young people," Bredefeld said.

Fresno State appears to region itself from Shurik, calling her posts "abhorrent."

"...They bash not correspond our University successful immoderate way. Fresno State firmly denounces wishes of decease against immoderate elected official, peculiarly the President of the United States - these spell against our halfway acquisition values and are not accordant with our Principles of Community..." the University offered successful a statement.

Bredefeld says helium spoke with Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval connected Monday morning.

"He expressed being acrophobic astir these kinds of statements being enactment retired determination by this professor," Bredefeld said of Jiménez-Sandoval.

Shurik describes herself connected Facebook arsenic a wide activistic and has antecedently said she teaches an activistic anthropology course.

She declined our petition for comment. Her posts remained online arsenic of Monday night.

"Politics should beryllium discussed," Bredefeld said. "But calling for the decease of the President of the United States, calling for the decease of Republicans, comparing them to Nazis - I deliberation that crosses a line."

Controversial posts by professors person happened earlier astatine Fresno State.

In 2018, different prof kept her occupation aft calling Barbara Bush an "amazing racist." Leaders astatine the clip said those comments did not interruption assemblage policy.

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