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.

  • Samueru@lemmy.world
    22·
    3 months ago

    I think that most critics of Kyle Rittenhouse don’t disagree with the carriage of justice

    This very thread is full of people saying that the judge was biased and lying with what actually happened.

    edit: look no further that people are comparing the trial to OJ Simpson kek.

    • infamousta@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 months ago

      And those folks wouldn’t be commenting at all if he wasn’t paraded around like some “get away with murder” mascot. It was a massive and heinous childhood fuckup and he’s giving speeches at colleges now like he’s something one should aspire to be. Technicalities of the trial are not the real problem people have.

      • Samueru@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 months ago

        Bro all this crap started since day one, nothing is new here, all the parade and everything happened afterwards.

        I think this is some russian bot propaganda thing, because it can’t be that the same lies from day one are still being repeated over and over, including the one that kyle shot black people.