Norman Regional Health System settled with an employee who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, but the health provider has chosen not to reveal the details.
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An attorney for a terminated Norman Regional Health System nurse accused the employer of âcancel cultureâ and enacting a âliberal agendaâ against his client, who was fired after making a Facebook comment about hanging a Black man.
Kevin Murnan worked for NRHS for 19 years, but was fired after commenting on a news article about a Black man who had been arrested for shooting a five-year-old white boy to death.
âGet a tall tree and a short piece of rope,â his comment on the Facebook post reads, according to court records. Murnan was fired in August 2020 and filed a tort claim against the hospital.
By Cherranda Smith
Apr 29, 2021
A nurse in Oklahoma is suing the hospital where he worked after getting fired over a Facebook post in which he called for the lynching of a Black man suspected of murder.
Kevin Murnan was a registered nurse at Norman Regional Hospital for 19 years before his termination.
“Get a big tall tree and a short piece of rope!” Murnan wrote online, referencing a Black man accused of killing a child,
The Oklahoman reported. He was terminated from the hospital late last August and is suing his former employer for $1.2 million.
Attorneys for the hospital asked a judge to dismiss the case, saying Murnan should accept the result of his actions after he “chose to pen his hateful thoughts and send them out into the general public believing that there could be no consequence for doing so.”