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.
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.