California Cypress College union claims firing of anti-cop professor had 'chilling effect' on workplace safety

A California faculty union has accused Cypress College of “failure to be anti-racist” and creating a “chilling effect” on workplace safety after it fired an anti-police communications professor who talked down to a student over his presentation condemning cancel culture.

 "United Faculty stands in solidarity with all our faculty in protecting their academic freedom and the right to a safe work environment, free of hostility and threats to their physical safety and emotional well-being," the United Faculty union’s president, Christie Diep, and lead negotiator, Mohammad Abdel Haq, said in a statement Monday. They also claimed that the college had placed minority faculty members at risk of becoming "targets of White supremacist organizations" after it parted ways with the first-year professor.