Posted on 10/26/2016 7:40:45 PM PDT by TigerClaws
From The Pitt Maverick Editorial Board:
October 26th, 2016 – Trump supporters at Pitt got more than they bargained for outside of Hillman Library today, where an aggrieved student flipped a table with Trump campaign merchandise.
Beginning around noon, Matt Kerlin, an unpaid volunteer for the Trump campaign and a student at the University of Pittsburgh, set about engaging students walking to and from class on the Hillman Library sidewalk on Bigelow Boulevard.
Distributing stickers, koozies, and literature, Kerlin was relieved to have attracted many fellow students who pledged to vote Trump. Many students were also relieved to finally have Trump represented on campus amongst the Hillary Clinton campaign and NextGen Climate tables that frequented campus sidewalks.
Surely enough, Kerlin and fellow tabling participants were met with remarks by students such as “f*uck the white male patriarchy!” and “I can’t believe you guys are actually people.” Shortly following, students began to behave aggressively.
“A student came up to us and made a claim about how Trump wants to get rid of “his people”, Kirk Breiner, a Sophomore and tabling participant told The Pitt Maverick.
Kerlin and Breiner were approached and harassed by a man claiming that the table was supporting a “racist” candidate. The man grabbed a stack of door-hanger literature and attempted to run off with them, but Kerlin relinquished the literature unharmed after being stopped a few feet away, though not before the perpetrator nearly initiated a fight with him.
“We responded by telling him that that’s absolutely ridiculous, and then he got agitated and grabbed a stack of literature from our table and ran off with it,” Breiner said.
According to Kerlin and Briener, at approximately 2pm, actions escalated. Two students approached the table, one of them sweeping all the literature to the ground and the other proceeding to flip it before fleeing the scene. Steven Evanovich, a Sophomore at Pitt, captured a video of the student and then proceeded to contact campus police, who are investigating the incident.
“It’s a shame that different opinions are met with such hostility at institutions of higher learning,” Evanovich told The Pitt Maverick.
“Calling Trump’s rhetoric “hate speech” actually reinforces and encourages the notion that violence against conservative or dissenting students is justified, and my own campus shouldn’t be a place where my friends or I are fearful for having opposing opinions.”
The Clinton Bullies are out again— need to send to Laura Ingraham.. and Scott Adams..
Meet Colonel Colt.
Make my day.
“campus police, who are investigating the incident.”
Translation: do nothing.
Looks like they followed rule one for conservatives - always have someone with a camera. Of course, it would be unreasonable to expect the university to do anything to a well indoctrinated liberal.
Did the Trump guys not have fists?
I applaud them for volunteering and I guess getting kicked out of college wouldn’t help.
But if that was me in Pace 26 years ago, I would have been swinging somewhere between 30 and 45 seconds into the melee.
Hell, I took some masters courses about six years ago and pulled to PRs who were killing each other apart until security came.
Took some classes to join the world after TBI recovery. Found out the world was still nuts! :)
If we're lucky, they'll lose all hope and do themselves in.
“...encourages the notion that violence against conservative or dissenting students is justified...”
And self-defense in the face of violence is entirely justified and legal.
No one has the right to put their hands on you with intent to do harm.
Hey, they might buy donuts first and eat those until the perp turns himself in.
“What will the violent leftists do after Trump wins this thing?”
We are ready for pretty much anything they care to throw at us. Well throw it back at roughly 2,900 fps.
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Or meet the Don. Don Bennelli.
Brilliant.
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It’s going to get sporty no matter who wins.
Thugs for Hillary.
I’m afraid so.
Oh well.
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Indeed.
I always carry at least mace now. Everyone should have a canister of it at the very least. Could save your life.
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