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.

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    8 months ago

    Back to your original comment

    before we start losing more people due to your virtue signaling bull crap 😂

    And I made the simple point that having Rittenhouse as a speaker is far louder “virtue signaling bull crap” than anyone calling him a murderer.

    Why do you care so much?

    Says the guy responding with multiple paragraphs.

    you’re just trying to win a dumb internet debate

    No, I’m just making a straight forward point. The fact that you think this is something to “win” really explains a lot.

    Let me simplify it lil bro:

    1. me no likey Rittenhouse but me no care
    2. he involve in mucho famous court case
    3. he so popular and some people, good and bad, want to hear he talk
    4. he be innocent so he no murder no body, he self defensed.
    5. you no likey outcome of case? 2bad so sad. U objectively wrong 🤷‍♀️

    Ya, I’m not going to bother trying to parse any of that.