A Chicago elementary teacher has been accused of mocking Charlie Kirk‘s death as the school she allegedly worked at shut down its website.
Lucy Martinez was allegedly videoed making gestures seemingly alluding to Kirk’s assassination at a protest, identified as a ‘No Kings’ rally, at the weekend.
A video went viral online of a woman, who social media users soon identified as Martinez, pointing her finger at her neck with her thumb in the air, in a gesture that mimics a gun.
She raised and lowered the her finger to her neck while appearing to mouth the word ‘bang.’
Her movements appeared to mock the death of 31-year-old Kirk, who was fatally shot in the side of his neck at Utah Valley University in September.
According to one social media user, the person recording the video was in a truck with a Kirk flag on it.
Nathan Hale Elementary School, where Martinez allegedly worked as a teacher, recently shut its website and X account down. The school has not commented in response to the allegations linked to Martinez.
Kirk’s death garnered worldwide attention, particularly for the influencer’s previous controversial statements on gun control and gun violence – which he had been debating a crowd member about when he was shot.
Lucy Martinez was identified as a teacher at Nathan Hale Elementary School who made gestures seemingly mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination at an anti-ICE protest
Nathan Hale Elementary School, where Martinez allegedly worked as a teacher, also recently shut its website and X account down
Martinez’s movements appeared to mock the death of 31-year-old Charlie Kirk, a right-wing podcaster who was fatally shot in the side of his neck at Utah Valley University in September
The video, allegedly of Martinez, went viral online and left many outraged by the behavior.
‘Meet Lucy Martinez – an elementary school teacher from Chicago who thought it was funny to mock Charlie Kirk’s death,’ right-wing commentator and co-founder of Students for Trump, Ryan Fournier, wrote on X.
‘This woman teaches children. Lucy is now the perfect face of the “No Kings” movement – a movement that preaches “love” but celebrates death. Evil always exposes itself.’
One user commented on Fournier’s post and said: ‘People with this mentality can’t be teaching children. Imagine if you had a child that had conservative or Charlie Kirk supporting parents and the children were like that too.’
‘Would she hurt them in some way or discriminate against them? Teachers like politicians really should be as neutral as they can unless this is a leftist anti American school and that is what they want the narrative to be,’ they added.
Another fumed: ‘Any teacher that CELEBRATES a school shooter murdering an emissary of peace should NEVER BE A TEACHER!’
A school under the same name’s Facebook page had received many comments under recent posts calling for Martinez’s firing.
One user wrote in a review for the school: ‘A teacher at this school, Lucy Martinez, is a soulless monster who should not be anywhere near children. She is a danger to them.
‘Mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk is a sign of a demon is in their ranks. I doubt she is the only one who thinks and acts like her. Run from this “school.”’
But that school responded: ‘We do not have an employee at Nathan Hale Elementary School in Schaumburg School District 54 with that name. We are not located in Chicago.’
The school commented multiple times that they had no teacher under the name Lucy Martinez, while more than 60 comments on their latest post continued to call for her firing.
Many other Facebook users, by the name Lucy Martinez, launched posts making clear they were not the woman in the video.
‘THERES a teacher I guess named Lucy Martinez who made an ugly comment publicly and y’all are coming in my page saying crazy things that do not relate to me! WRONG LUCY MARTINEZ’ one user wrote.
‘I am not a teacher nor made any public comments about whatever it is you guys are so upset about. Please do your proper research and do not comment on my page lol! Especially the ugly things you guys are saying!’
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Chicago teacher accused of mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination as school suddenly pulls website