Posted on 11/29/2021 10:35:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Despite the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges, leftist student organizations are working to get him banned from campus.
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges in the shootings that left two dead and a third injured in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year amid the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots, but those facts are irrelevant to left-wing students who want him banned from Arizona State University campus where he is enrolled.
Led by Students for Socialism, four groups plan to rally Wednesday for Rittenhouse’s removal. The 18-year-old enrolled for classes in October and plans to continue his studies in nursing upon a jury finding him not guilty. He was accused of first-degree reckless homicide, two charges of first-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree intentional homicide, and attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
“Even with a not-guilty verdict from a flawed ‘justice’ system — Kyle Rittenhouse is still guilty to his victims and the families of those victims,” a flyer tweeted by Students for Socialism states. “Join us to demand from ASU that these demands be met to protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer.”
Join us and rally against racist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse being permitted on our campus – Wednesday at 3:30 outside the Nelson Fine Arts Center on campus pic.twitter.com/4Hs3JxRqtY
— Students for Socialism ASU 🚩 (@SFSASU) November 26, 2021
The flyer lists several demands for the university. The groups call for ASU to withdraw Rittenhouse, “release a statement against white supremacy & racist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse,” “reaffirm support for the multicultural center on campus as a safe space from white supremacy,” and defund the university’s police department.
The final demand from the students is to move funding from the police department to establish a CAARE Healing Center on campus. CAARE champions equity and is a nonprofit that gives health services to uninsured, at-risk, and “under-insured” people. Other groups backing the effort include Students for Justice in Palestine, the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition, and the Mexican American student organization on campus, MEChA de ASU.
While the left-wing groups neglect Rittenhouse’s acquittal, they seemingly also neglect his political leanings. It is unclear whether Rittenhouse is a Democrat or Republican, but in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson of Fox News, he said he supports the culturally-Marxist BLM movement. Still, his statements do not seem to matter to the organizations. Rittenhouse has been framed as a “white supremacist” conservative.
Ryne Bolick, a member of the executive board in ASU’s College Republicans club, told The Federalist he thinks the left-wing groups’ calls to get Rittenhouse kicked off-campus are “absurd.”
“We obviously recognize their First Amendment rights to protest but that doesn’t mean we can’t think they’re kind of absurd in their calls to get Rittenhouse kicked off-campus. And it’s not like he’s trying to be some political asset. After all, he’s literally trying to get his nursing degree,” Bolick said. “He was acquitted on all charges. So, he’s an innocent student. And they’re trying to kick him off campus.”
A spokesman for ASU’s Students for Socialism told Fox News that “the court[s] [verdict] is one of the thousands of cases that have been influenced by biased judges, predominantly white juries, and mistakes inherent in a judicial system founded off of injustice to begin with.”
Rittenhouse said his self-defense actions “had nothing to do with race.” Key witnesses described in their testimonies that one of the individuals who was shot — Joseph Rosenbaum — reached for his gun and threatened to kill Rittenhouse.
Prior to being acquitted, high-level Democrats took to defaming Rittenhouse. President Joe Biden referred to him as a “white supremacist” and MSNBC’s Joy Reid compared the case to the lynching of a black man. MSNBC host Tiffany Cross said after the trial that the verdict was “disgusting” due to a “little murderous white supremacist” being acquitted for a crime he did not commit.
“The jury reached the correct verdict,” Rittenhouse said after the trial. “Self-defense is not illegal. And I believe they came to the correct verdict and I’m glad that everything went well.”
Bolick, a sophomore, also said he thinks the corporate media’s portrayal of Rittenhouse has led to the narrative blaming, as well as the radical reaction from uninformed students.
“They made it seem like he was going out of his way looking for trouble,” said Bolick. “But when you actually listen to the trial, he was going there because he had family friends that were in the car lot. So he went with a fire extinguisher to put out fires. He was cleaning up graffiti and the gun was purely there to just protect himself. So when you look at the initial media coverage, he was definitely portrayed in a way to make him look like a villain — but that was not the case whatsoever.”
It remains to be seen whether ASU’s administration will stand by the innocent student it admitted for credit. The university could not immediately be reached for comment.
Oh I wish they would kick Kyle off campus...just another multi-million $$$ law suit.
This kid is never gonna have to work a day in his life.
Keep on digging that hole, liberals
They need to kick the intolerant liberals off campus.
These organizations should be kicked off campus. “Students for Socialism” - too stupid have been admitted to college, let alone be awarded a degree.
Someone had a link to the FB page of the head-covering gal behind this
Nothing political, just a couple of posts dragons and such
But, one look at her picture speaks volumes
Is he even there? It’s likely he’s participating online if
anything.
How about starting to eject students that seek to get other law
abiding citizens kicked out of school.
“Led by Students for Socialism..”
How about having these young punks sent to live in North Korea for twelve months? I wonder if they would really be for socialism afterwards.
For more from these morons:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4016522/posts
Just add them to the defamation/slander/libel suit.
Exactly true !
Suing the State campus, and then the Student union will raise the tuition costs,
and will enrichen Kyle and his family.
They should immediately EXPEL all these trouble maker children for being Childish. College is for Adults, not Snot Nosed Whiney little bitches.
I hope that they all signed this request so that he can sue them also for tarnishing his good name.
You would? He has the perfect right to sue and I hope he is awarded big money.
Didn’t he already say he’s going to take some time to reassess his schooling?
One interview he said he wanted to go into medicine
The other one, he said he’s thinking of becoming a defense lawyer
Either way, it seems he can do some pre med or pre law classes online
amen
You said it.
I believe Rittenhouse is using the Arizona State online learning. He isn't on any campus to kick off.
They’re not “Leftist students,” they’re Communists.
If anything, ASU should be looking at expelling them.
Can you imagine that expensive lawyer counseling session?
Without any concern over right and wrong the ASU executive leadership is like what do we do?
Well, if you kick him off campus Kyle will own this University.
If you don’t, you’ll face a momentary backlash that will likely be over in a week. If not however, you’ll have to lock horns with the moron liberal students you created.
Kyle is taking classes remotely, so how stupid anyway.
He wants to be a nurse.
Where are the campus conservatives?
Hillsdale does have premed. That would be a possibility.
If I were him I would legally change my name. He should not have to, though.
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