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An Arizona State University student who sued the school over free speech concerns stemming from a Twitter post about a police shooting settled with the university on Thursday. Rae Lee Klein filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Arizona Board of Regents, ASU, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Kristin Gilger, Cronkite s interim dean, in October, claiming her First Amendment rights to free expression were impinged. The settlement comes almost six months after Klein posted a tweet that led to backlash from her fellow students and people who worked at Blaze Radio, the student-run station where she was manager. ....
Always more to the story, folks, Klein said in the tweet, encouraging the public to read an article about the sexual assault allegation against Blake that preceded his shooting. You’ll be quite disgusted. The board voted to take her out of the position she d held since the previous year, but could not fire her because she was and apparently still is employed by ASU, not the station. She argued that the board should reinstate her, but Cronkite Interim Dean Kristin Gilger soon sent her a letter saying staying on as station manager is not an option. Gilger informed Klein that she could be reassigned to another student worker position, take a board position in which she d be required to work on diversity issues, or start her own station. ....