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.

  • @[email protected]
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    What happened to the car dealership that allowed an underage armed kid from out of state to guard their property? Did they quietly settle for a lot of money? That’s an angle of the story I want to know about.

    • Flax
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      Is that actually illegal though? It should be, sure, but was it?

    • @John_McMurray
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      Oh look, you remember certain parts in such great detail one would suspect you know the answer and are asking disingenuous questions to push a point of view

      • @abbotsbury
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        First time with a rhetorical question?

        • @John_McMurray
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          That’s an angle of the story I want to know about.

          That’s not how you follow a rhetorical question.

            • @John_McMurray
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              And yet, here you are, taking the time. Goddamn you guys couldn’t come up with a coherent argument if you tried.