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Vigil for Charlie Kirk turns violent after activist’s profanity-laced outburst

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Stay classy Libs!

A massive fight broke out during a vigil held for Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old political activist who was assassinated during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday, according to video of the incident.

The brawl erupted in front of the Idaho state Capitol in Boise the evening of Kirk’s killing, local reports said.

A man wearing a white T-shirt and rainbow-colored backpack reportedly shouted "F--- Charlie Kirk" into the crowd while on a Lime bike, sparking outrage among attendees.

Police later identified him as 41-year-old Terry Wilson, a local Black Lives Matter activist, according to KIVI.

Tensions rose when 51-year-old Alfonso Ayala confronted Wilson, sparking a heated exchange that quickly turned physical, the station reported. As some in the crowd chanted "USA! USA!" and others repeatedly urged them to stop, Wilson was seen being knocked to the ground, kicked and struck before getting back up and punching back.

Video shows that the brawl continued until police and other attendees intervened. Wilson then crossed the street in the footage, swearing at the crowd and demanding "free speech!"

BPD said Wilson has a history of activism and prior arrests, according to local media. In 2021, he was reportedly arrested for vandalizing the "Seated Lincoln" statue in Julia Davis Park, smearing it with paint and feces and placing makeshift signs on it.

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So a Leftist engaged in free speech and a crowd of Rightists engaged in political violence against him. Why does the Right keep engaging in political violence in response to speech?
 
According to your story it was the Kirkists who got violent. Chanted "USA! USA!" while the crowd beat the crap out of the guy.
Stay classy, magats.
 
Forget it, you guys are arguing with an OP that enjoys "profanity laced outbursts," hatred, and potentially more so long as it is his side of the fence doing the work.

The story he went with does not even line up to what happened.
 
Questerr said:
So a Leftist engaged in free speech and a crowd of Rightists engaged in political violence against him. Why does the Right keep engaging in political violence in response to speech?
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Yes this appears to be the case. A liberal engaged in free speech and was responded to with right wing violence with full support of the OP.
 
Questerr said:
So a Leftist engaged in free speech and a crowd of Rightists engaged in political violence against him. Why does the Right keep engaging in political violence in response to speech?
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Leftists keep saying that “speech is violence”. So, why did this leftist decide to engage in violence instead of just being respectful and cycling onward?
 
phoenix2020 said:
Yes this appears to be the case. A liberal engaged in free speech and was responded to with right wing violence with full support of the OP.
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I have been told repeatedly by leftists on this site that there are limits to free speech. Sounds like he yelled the equivalent of “fire” in the theater.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
I have been told repeatedly by leftists on this site that there are limits to free speech. Sounds like he yelled the equivalent of “fire” in the theater.
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I'm sure leftists would agree that violent vigilante justice is not the appropriate response to that either. They should've just called the cops on his ass.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
I have been told repeatedly by leftists on this site that there are limits to free speech. Sounds like he yelled the equivalent of “fire” in the theater.
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Your support of political violence is noted.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
I have been told repeatedly by leftists on this site that there are limits to free speech. Sounds like he yelled the equivalent of “fire” in the theater.
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Why do you always obey the orders of the leftist filth? First you obey Donald, now you’re obeying the leftists. Is there anything you actually stand for? When did @JMB1911A1 posts stop being about his opinions and become instead regurgitations of talking points handed to you by others?
 
When your getaway is a bike, might be smart to not incite a crowd. Not too smart.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
Leftists keep saying that “speech is violence”.
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I could be considered a leftist, and ive never said that.
I was brought up with the saying " sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.
So, when you come here with idiotic blanket statements like that, all i can say is you dont know what the f___ you're talking about.
 

The redefinition of opposing views as “violence” is a favorite excuse for violent groups like antifa, which continue to physically assault speakers with pro-life and other disfavored views. As explained by Rutgers Professor Mark Bray’s in his “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” the group believes that “‘free speech’ as such is merely a bourgeois fantasy unworthy of consideration.”

As one antifa member explained, free speech is a “nonargument…you have the right to speak but you also have the right to be shut up.”
 
The red hat posts an opinion piece as proof?

Well, you're maga, so....


That tracks
 
Queen Margo said:
Out of curiosity, where does one "note" these things?
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Oh, we keep it in the same safe where Donald's people stored their incontrovertible proof of 2020 massive electoral fraud. It's in the file right next to the one where Donald stored his evidence that Ted Cruz's father helped assassinate JFK, Ted Cruz stole the 2016 Ohio GOP primary, and Ted Cruz's wife is ugly.
 
OR maybe next to "I am a victim" file?
 
Crakhobarbie said:
The red hat posts an opinion piece as proof?

Well, you're maga, so....


That tracks
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How about an article form the noted “conservative” publication, “The Atlantic”? From 2017.

It's a Really Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence

A claim increasingly heard on campus will make them more anxious and more willing to justify physical harm.
www.theatlantic.com

Of all the ideas percolating on college campuses these days, the most dangerous one might be that speech is sometimes violence. We’re not talking about verbal threats of violence, which are used to coerce and intimidate, and which are illegal and not protected by the First Amendment. We’re talking about speech that is deemed by members of an identity group to be critical of the group, or speech that is otherwise upsetting to members of the group. This is the kind of speech that many students today refer to as a form of violence. If Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, is that an act of violence?
 
phoenix2020 said:
I don't think Donald maintains a "@Queen Margo is a victim" file. I doubt he even knows that you exist, and why would he? You don't even own DJT or $TRUMP.
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We are not talking about Donald Trump we are talking about the "note" takers
 
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