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.

  • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
    121·
    9 months ago

    Maybe - and I’m just spitballing here - a parent should have done something different about their stupid underage failure of a son.

    Things you should not do if you are the parent of a dumb kid.

    1. Give them a gun.
    2. Let them take a gun or any weapon out of the house unsupervised.
    3. Let them go to another state at night unsupervised.
    4. Let them go to a violent protest alone.
    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
      32·
      9 months ago
      Let them take a gun or any weapon out of the house unsupervised.

      He didn’t take it out of his home. The gun was never in his home. This was covered in the trial, because if he had had the gun at home, it would have been illegal due to differences in firearms possession laws between WI and IL. That’s why the gun was kept in WI.

      Let them go to another state at night unsupervised.

      This is such a nothing, but it makes it sound like a big deal. Kenosha is right by the state line, he lived in a town just on the other side of the state line. So, what you are saying is you think parents shouldn’t allow kids in their late teens to go to the next town over unsupervised. The distance is ~20 miles, about half an hour in a car.

      • Wiz@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        So, what you are saying is you think parents shouldn’t allow kids in their late teens to go to the next town over unsupervised. The distance is ~20 miles, about half an hour in a car.

        Regular kids? That’s fine.

        Dumb kids like this joker? Hell no.