Work accusation.
I was working a long shift yesterday, was going to be ten hours long, I felt like the shift was going great and I had even been helping two new employees learn stuff. For context I have been working there since June 10th and only recently bought a knife for work to open boxes. Well, yesterday I was almost done with my ten hour shift when two of the managers come up to me and Im asked to leave the property. It was random. They wouldn't tell me why and I wasn't allowed to wait even in the lobby for my ride to pick me up, which wouldn't have been until hours later. I found out nearly two hours later from people who heard from people in whole different cities that were not even employed by McDonalds or even the company the McDonalds I work for is owned by. I was apparently accused of pulling my knife on someone. (Wtf, why would I even do that, what is ever worth doing that) I was not allowed to work my shift today or even finish my other shift yesterday. I have a meeting with my gm and I assume higher up tomorrow about it but I was completely blindsided by this. Does anyone know how I should go about this and what compensation I should ask for when it comes out that I didn't do it due to the fact I was humiliated and my image was ruined?
Edit: they did fire me, not because I possessed the knife, but because the girl, who was new, felt threatened. The moment they showed me as me "pulling a knife on her" was me holding the knife for two seconds, unopened, and not pointed toward her, saying she needed to get one to open boxes, otherwise she'd have to find someone with one. They then tried to claim me talking with my hands was "making violent gestures" at her. I am going to go through legal channels to sue as everything was not handled properly and they were clearly cherry picking for what they wanted.