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.

  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
    716·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • theneverfoxEnglish
      53·
      9 months ago

      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?

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        37·
        9 months ago

        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.

        • Pwnmode@lemmy.world
          32·
          9 months ago

          “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.

          • SupraMario@lemmy.world
            24·
            9 months ago

            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.