Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk.
Rittenhouse was invited by the college’s Turning Point USA chapter to speak at the campus. However, the event was met with backlash from a number of students who objected to Rittenhouse’s presence.
The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, he shot and killed two men—Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz—at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He said the three shootings, carried out with a semi-automatic AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held after Jacob Blake, a Black man, was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by a white police officer.
Do we have a list of schools he is speaking at, we should organize and call the schools to share our displeasure, especially to the advancement department, who is in charge of donations
He didnt really storm off the stage, and that critique would be simple to refute. The problem is that he is trying to use his famous to be a speaker, but he doesnt have that skill.
ruh roh… he went to pump up his kicks… run!
Why are we giving this guy a platform? He’s basically a grifter who got famous from walking into a Black Lives Matter protest to stir shit up, shooting three (and killing two) protesters and then somehow being acquited by a jury.
Fuck this kid. He should be rotting in a jail cell - certainly not sauntering around giving speeches on uni campuses.
Kid sees the downfall of society happening and tries to do something about it. He then defended himself when needed against 3 aggressors.
Got to respect the kid.
If this kid was black, you’d all be praising him for killing two white people who were attacking him. The reason Lemmy and Reddit hate this dude is because you associate him with some kind of “white privilege” for going to help defend businesses from being destroyed (at the request of the city’s businesses who had enough of the rioting and torching) he ends up defending himself against criminals who were there just to cause problems.
Ok… So I don’t get this. This guy got away with shooting some black protesters and seems pretty racist.
Why exactly does that make him worth putting on stage? And at a college no less…
This is how shit the info you people have, no one he shot was black…all 3 where white guys. One was a domestic abuser and the other was a pedophile, the one injured had a felony record and was not supposed to own a firearm. Rittenhouse is still a fucking idiot for being there but FFS get your info right. You sound like those right wing dipshits who just make shit up to fit an agenda.
I don’t know who this dude is. Apparently the people he shot were white - apparently I made some assumptions
So he killed 3 white guys and seems pretty racist. Why is he a public speaker? At colleges no less?
So let me get this straight…you come into a thread about a very well published case of self defense… with no clue who he is, but because everyone else who hates guns, think he is a POS you jump on the band wagon?
Lol what a fucking joke.
Some of you are the most ignorant people on the left. You’re like the rights version of the idiots who want Joe Biden impeached…fucking just ignorant.
“Self defense”. Sure. When someone drives to a protest out of state and starts walking around patrolling streets with guns for some reason it’s less of self defense to me and more hunting. He took it up on him himself to be a vigilante and put himself in dangerous situations that he didn’t need to be in.
Calling him anything but a childish POS who wanted to wave his metal dick around is a fucking joke.
He lived in the area. Literally if you lived next to a state line, there isn’t some random boarder, you just live in that area. It’s a stupid argument.
Protecting an area from rioters, while stupid, was the reason they where there. There is plenty of footage from that night, the dude should have stayed home, but so should the 3 tools who were there looking to burn buildings and start fights. A 4 people involved were idiots, and none of them should be defended.
He shot three white men and killed two of them. I think he was irresponsible and foolish to insert himself in the situation. I think his motivation for doing so was racially biased.
I also think it is important to be factual where possible. He’s already despicable for trying to benefit from the killings. Incorrectly labeling the victims as minorities, even by mistake, weakens the position against him by giving bad-faith actors a point of contention to home in on.
Fair, but I genuinely don’t know this guy, I’m genuinely asking for information. Killing 3 white guys doesn’t qualify you for public speaking either
I will never name my kid Kyle
For anyone interested the full trail is still available online and is a very interesting watch for anyone even remotely interested in the US justice system. I do feel a lot of the commenters above may feel differently after watching the entire trial and viewing the evidence presented first-hand rather than skewed through the lenses of journalists from either side of the political compass.
You could say, he got murdered!
He was a trooper for singing Tomorrow belongs to me, from Cabaret, at the front of the stage before storming off.
takes deep breath
WOMP WOMP
Backstage footage…
