Posted on 10/18/2025 3:31:46 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Illinois State University faculty member flips Turning Point USA tables on campus: ‘Jesus did it’
A twisted Illinois State University faculty member was arrested after allegedly flipping a Turning Point USA table on campus this week, viral video shows.
The accused vandal, Derek Lopez, was caught on camera speaking to a man standing near the table — which had been set up by students in the group to promote political YouTuber and comedian Alex Stein’s Oct. 20 event at the university, according to video, local police and various X posts about the ugly incident.
“Well, you know, Jesus did it, so you know I gotta do it, right?” Lopez, 27, of El Paso, Ill. — a teacher’s assistant and graduate student at the university — tells the man before the footage shows him tossing the table over, sending pins, flyers and other items rocketing into the air.
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Derek Lopez, teaching assistant. Thank figures....
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1979526817494052912
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I hope Comrade Pritzker is unable to prevent justice from happening to this sorry leftist.
Conservatives cannot depend on useless individuals like the following to protect them.
"University Police Department Chief Aaron Woodruff said in a statement they are “committed to protecting the First Amendment rights as well as safety of everyone in our campus community.”
Also, conservative groups need to have lawyers to file lawsuits against Derek Lopez and all of his supervisors all the way up to the President of the University and the Board of Regents.
I love when Godless heathen democrat progs quote the bible.
He has no idea WHY Jesus flipped the tables.
He probably thinks “my brother’s keeper” means an endless tax scheme to redistribute wealth.
“Turn the other cheek” means allow any progressive to abuse you.
On and on.
Hey Derek... let’s see you walk on water and heal a leper, too.
I spy a man bun. Figures.
El Paso, Illinois, was Fulton Sheen’s birthplace. I think that 100 years from now people will still venerate the memory of Fulton Sheen and no one will remember Derek Lopez.
Jesus had the authority to do it.
Wonder how fast he would become a hypocrite, if they would have kicked his a**, then told him, don’t complain, God did it.
👍👍
Central Illinois, outside of the cities, is all Republican and Christian.
I would think his job at State Farm is gone.
It wouldn’t be smart to fight back, the police, mayor, university etc. are on the flippers side.
El Paso, IL is the hometown of RIP, Gubamyster.
Jerk from State Farm!
Didn’t have the stomach to read fully, but wonder if it was a real professor or someone in the formerly respected liberal ‘artz’. These clowns couldn’t pass an early 20th century NY reagent’s exam.
As a former liberal I've tried telling conservatives this is not some gentlemanly boxing match with Marquis Of Queensbury Rules.
With liberals it's a bar room brawl with the lights out.
Take a cue from Sean Connery.
“When Capone puts one of yours in the hospital ya put one of his in the fecking morgue!’’
Unlike this miscreant.
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