Demonstrators clashed at Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green, on Wednesday, March 27, outside a student event hosting Kyle Rittenhouse, who famously shot and killed two people at a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in 2020.
The university chapter of the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA hosted the on-campus event, where Rittenhouse was set to speak “about the importance of the Second Amendment and the lies of BLM.”
In 2020, Rittenhouse shot three people at a BLM protest in Wisconsin, killing two of them. He pleaded self-defense and was acquitted in 2021.
Footage taken by Brendan Gutenschwager shows protesters outside the speech’s venue holding signs reading “Fascists Not Welcome in BG,” amid loud chanting and a heated exchange between two men, with one shouting, “It has nothing to do with race.”
The other responds, “It has everything to do with race!” Credit: Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful
