Rittenhouse's appearance at a university generated hostility from a number of students but he remained positive, saying it had been "a great event."

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.

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
        211·
        9 months ago

        Lmao, imagine thinking people who murder BLM protestors are fighting against racism. You’re too far gone, mate.

        • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
          238·
          9 months ago

          I didnt say he was fighting against racism, I said one of the people you are defending was a racist pedo that spent years in prison and was in the process of attacking another minor, and you are defending them. Why are you so strongly defending that person?

          • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
            16·
            9 months ago

            @CableMonster believes he should decide who lives and dies, probably deserves to be on a watchlist as a potential mass murderer.

            • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
              231·
              9 months ago

              You are the one that wanted the racist pedo to attack the minor, I am saying he should defend himself. Would it have been a better outcome of instead of the pedo dying he raped another minor or murdered a minor? Which one?

              • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
                12·
                9 months ago

                Murdered a minor who instead shot and murdered two people as was his plan, or even better still Kyle should have stayed the fuck home and not committed multiple homicide over his political beliefs that black lives in fact did not matter. Did you really think I was going to sit here and tell you one murder was worse than multiple murders?

                • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
                  332·
                  9 months ago

                  Let me get this straight, you would rather one minor die, than have the two attackers (one pedo, one domestic violence) survive? Thats pretty telling…

                  I am going to take the pro-minor anti-racist pedo stance. I guess you are picking the pro-pedo side…