The University of Memphis is currently under fire from conservative groups nationwide for allegedly collaborating with radical activists to obstruct a speech by Kyle Rittenhouse on campus. Calls have been made for a state inquiry into the actions of university officials who are accused of pressuring Turning Point USA student leaders. Additionally, there are demands for legal repercussions against the university.
Administrators at the university stepped aside and permitted students to interrupt Rittenhouse’s speech at an event organized by the campus Turning Point USA chapter. View the exclusive video footage of the incident below:
JUST IN: Radical activists disrupt Rittenhouse speech. They claim to believe Blacks Lives Matter – but they have not uttered one word of protest about the black-on-black crime that has turned #Memphis into a war zone. pic.twitter.com/MkgN9nPi8Q
— KWAM News Radio 990 AM Memphis (@Mighty990KWAM) March 21, 2024
“This is what happens when school administrators pander to petulant children,” said TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. “You get chaos.”
“Our brave students will press forward but this is unacceptable, especially in a Tennessee. Memphis had record homicides last year, but apparently our students and Kyle Rittenhouse are the problem for the University of Memphis,” he said.
Kirk further alleged that the university deliberately undermined the event. Mere hours prior, the university retracted a substantial number of tickets. TPUSA asserts that this choice led to numerous individuals being deprived of attending the speech.
“Most shockingly, we have gathered credible information that school administrators have leaked the new ticketing information to protester groups so they can reserve large numbers of newly issued tickets and sabotage the event,” Turning Point said in a statement. “We know this because some of our students are in the protester group chats. There is no way these groups could have known the new ticketing timing and protocol without school administrators leaking that information. This has never happened before at a TPUSA campus event.”
Kirk outlined everything the University had done to sabotage the event:
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Leftwing agitators are swarming the University of Memphis ahead of tonight's campus event with Kyle Rittenhouse, chanting "Lock his a** up" and later "F*** his a** up."
The school has gone to incredible lengths to hamstring this event, including:
1 – Forcing… pic.twitter.com/DXdndXO8Cu
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 21, 2024
🚨: Chaos breaks out at the University of Memphis after BLM protesters chased down @TPUSA people who were leaving the Kyle Rittenhouse event. Police had to prevent the hostile crowd from physically attacking them.@FrontlinesTPUSA pic.twitter.com/PFr8Ccqr0n
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) March 21, 2024
BREAKING: Protestors at the event with Kyle Rittenhouse at the University of Memphis seen hitting and spitting on cars as they leave. They also attempted to block cars from leaving.@Julio_Rosas11 @FrontlinesTPUSA @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/Z3OeBQsQlX
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 21, 2024