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

    I think that most critics of Kyle Rittenhouse donā€™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.

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      And those folks wouldnā€™t be commenting at all if he wasnā€™t paraded around like some ā€œget away with murderā€ mascot. It was a massive and heinous childhood fuckup and heā€™s giving speeches at colleges now like heā€™s something one should aspire to be. Technicalities of the trial are not the real problem people have.

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        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 canā€™t be that the same lies from day one are still being repeated over and over, including the one that kyle shot black people.