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 collegeā€™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 Rittenhouseā€™s presence.

The 21-year-old gained notoriety in August 2020 when, at the age of 17, heĀ shot and killed two menā€”Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as injuring 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutzā€”at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

He said theĀ three shootings, carried out with a semi-automaticĀ AR-15-style firearm, were in self-defense. TheĀ Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest where the shootings took place was held afterĀ 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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    9 months ago

    Holy shit people are still repeating the drove across state lines crap to this day lmao. That shit was actually mentioned in the trial and quickly fell thru when Rittenhouse mentioned that they worked as a paramedic in that very place and made the prosecutor look like an asshole lmao.

    At least donā€™t spread misinformation my dude.

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      9 months ago

      How stupid he 17 and no paramedic. And what paramedic is carrying around AR15? And yes he drove across state lines.

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        My bad, not paramedic but lifeguard.

        And what paramedic is carrying around AR15?

        Oddly enough one of the people shot were indeed an EMT and they were also armed.

        And yes he drove across state lines.

        Because they worked on that town and he was there the day before the shooting, unlike the other people involved in the shooting which iirc never lived or worked there.

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          He was no where near that town and fucking life guard. Why are defending this murdering little fuck?

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            He was no where near that town and fucking life guard. Why are defending this murdering little fuck?

            Because youā€™re spreading misinformation lol. Did you even watch the trial?