The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has sparked heated debate on free speech and business rights in the US. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a strong warning to companies after an Office Depot worker was fired for refusing to print vigil posters.
On Fox News, Bondi declared: “Businesses cannot discriminate. If you want to go in and print posters with Charlie’s pictures on them for a vigil, you have to let them do that.” She added: “We can prosecute you for that. I have Harmeet Dhillon right now in our civil rights unit looking at that immediately.”
Bondi went further, saying: “Employers, you have an obligation to get rid of people. You need to look at people who are saying horrible things, they shouldn’t be working with you.”
The controversy began after a Michigan Office Depot employee told a customer, “We don’t print propaganda, it’s propaganda.” The company later fired the worker, stating they violated policy.
Critics accused Bondi of hypocrisy, pointing to Supreme Court rulings that allowed businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples. As one user noted: “Yet a baker can deny baking a cake if they have right-wing ideology.”
