Kyle Rittenhouse Flees University of Memphis Stage After Facing Off With Booing Protesters

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He refused to answer a question about hate speech and was booed by the crowd.

, who became a darling of the right after shooting three protesters in 2020, hightailed it off a stage at the University of Memphis on Wednesday night as a crowd of

Video from the event showed several protesters in black T-shirts in attendance. One of them stood up and questioned Rittenhouse aboutWhen the protester alleged that Kirk has “said a lot of racist things,” Rittenhouse immediately grew defensive. “Like what? What racist things has Charlie Kirk said?” he fired back from the podium. “We’re gonna have a bit of a dialogue of what racist things Charlie Kirk said.”“He says that we shouldn't celebrate Juneteenth, we shouldn’t celebrate Martin Luther King Day—we should be working those days. He called, and he said he’d be scared if a Black pilot was on a plane. Does that not seem racist?”“After all the things I just told you, would you consider that hate speech?” the protester asked.

“I’m not gonna comment on that,” Rittenhouse answered, as the room once again erupted in boos. Rittenhouse waited on stage for a beat, but stormed off after he was approached by one of the event’s organizers. He did not look back or make any other comments as he left the stage.Before the event, about 200 people turned out to protest Rittenhouse’s appearance, far outnumbering the amount of people who attended in support of him.

 

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