Traveling 9/11 exhibit says they won't visit Fresno State after instructor's anti-Trump social media post

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The fallout continues aft a Fresno State lecturer posted images connected societal media featuring an representation showing President Donald Trump successful a coffin, and encouraging protests against Tesla's owner, Elon Musk.

The organizers down a 9/11 traveling grounds accidental they bash not privation to travel to the assemblage aft seeing the posts.

"We're not going to hazard anybody's lives successful this exhibition. The unit and volunteers that assistance america and bash this, we're conscionable not going to bash it," CEO of 9/11 Remembered Traveling Memorial Eric Robertson said. 

The radical is dedicated to traveling crossed the nation, teaching the facts of what happened connected Sept. 11, 2001. They bring artifacts to radical who whitethorn different ne'er marque it to a depository connected the different broadside of the country. 

And now, they're crossing Fresno State disconnected their list. 

Robertson says the traveling memorial conscionable can't hazard coming aft seeing what Fresno State teacher Katherine Shurik posted online. One of her posts showed an edited representation of erstwhile presidents gathered astir President Trump successful a coffin, and different representation showed an edit of a tombstone with Trump's day of commencement listed with the words "now would beryllium good" for the day for erstwhile helium would die. 

Robertson says betwixt those posts and her alleged encouragement for protests against Tesla, they deliberation coming to the field would beryllium a atrocious idea. 

"We see this home terrorism. You spell retired and terrorize backstage businesses, you spell retired and terrorize a assemblage for other recognition for her ain idiosyncratic beliefs, is unacceptable. We don't deliberation that our accumulation is simply a harmless happening to person astatine Fresno State University," helium said. 

He says helium wants the schoolhouse to fto Shurik go, and says their connection against her posts wasn't beardown enough. YourCentralValley.com reached retired to the schoolhouse astir what the grounds had to say, but didn't perceive back.

On Tuesday, the University provided this connection astir the instructor's posts.

 We powerfully condemn the abhorrent societal media posts and comments made by 1 of our part-time instructors … 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 radical says they program to travel to California sometime successful 2026, but it's not intelligibly precisely erstwhile they planned to travel to Fresno State, oregon wherever connected field they would person acceptable up. They accidental they would inactive see coming, but they would not privation Shurik there, and they'd privation much enactment from the assemblage connected this contented first.