Supreme Court won’t weigh teacher’s firing for posts after George Floyd death
Jeanne Hedgepeth was a teacher at Palatine High School in Illinois for 20 years. But while on summer vacation in Florida, she shared incendiary posts about protests following Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. She wrote in one post that she would need “a gun and training” because “civil war has begun,” and she reposted another that advocated for using high-pressure washers against protesters.
- ▪Jeanne Hedgepeth was a teacher at Palatine High School in Illinois for 20 years.
- ▪But while on summer vacation in Florida, she shared incendiary posts about protests following Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
- ▪She wrote in one post that she would need “a gun and training” because “civil war has begun,” and she reposted another that advocated for using high-pressure washers against protesters.
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Court Battles Supreme Court won’t weigh teacher’s firing for posts after George Floyd death Comments: by Ella Lee - 05/18/26 10:18 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Ella Lee - 05/18/26 10:18 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING The Supreme Court said Monday it will not consider whether a suburban Chicago teacher was rightfully fired over inflammatory Facebook posts in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. Jeanne Hedgepeth was a teacher at Palatine High School in Illinois for 20 years. But while on summer vacation in Florida, she shared incendiary posts about protests following Floyd’s death in Minneapolis.
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