A state employee who was fired, then reinstated, after posting comments about conservative commentator Charlie Kirk last year is facing a new legal hurdle after the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services has appealed her reinstatement.
In a petition filed in chancery court in Davidson County, DCS said Shedenna Dockery, who worked for the department for 22 years before her firing, had not sufficiently proven that the department lacked cause to fire her.
She was fired on Nov. 18, 2025, the department said, for making “inappropriate and offensive comments on social media” about Kirk. The department said the posts were “described as politically and racially divisive.”
Her posts, detailed in her termination letter, centered on a comment made on her son’s social media posting about Kirk’s position on the Second Amendment.
The letter states that she shared a portion of a Malcolm X quote stating “the chickens are coming home to roost.”
DCS said her conduct “reflect(ed) negatively on the state” and accused her post of “suggest(ing) that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was karmic retribution.”
According to her termination letter, DCS internal investigators also reviewed her social media account “dating back several years” and noted two additional “potentially derogatory posts.” One was about how “whites only”...
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