A New Jersey nurse says she was punished for speaking out against a doctor who allegedly celebrated the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk — and now she’s taking the hospital to court.
The incident
The shockwaves from Charlie Kirk’s assassination are now hitting ordinary people — and some are paying with their jobs, according to reports.
The backlash has swept up everyone from teachers and firefighters to journalists, politicians, and even a Secret Service employee.
Lexi Kuenzle, 33, has been a nurse for a decade, nearly two years of which she’s spent at Englewood Health in New Jersey.
When news broke on September 10 that Kirk had been fatally shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University, Kuenzle says one of her colleagues, bariatric surgeon Dr. Matthew Jung, openly “cheered” in front of her, eight nurses, and even a patient on a stretcher.
“Oh, my God! That’s terrible! I love him!” Kuenzle recalled saying.
Dr. Jung allegedly fired back: “I hate Charlie Kirk. He had it coming. He deserved it.”
Kuenzle says she immediately confronted him, asking: “You’re a doctor. How could you say someone deserved to die?”
She later described his remarks as “mind-blowing” in an interview with the New York Post, adding: “I was so angry and upset.”
According to the lawsuit, Jung then tried to smooth things over by offering to “buy lunch” for Kuenzle and the other nurses.
