TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University student groups protesting Kyle Rittenhouse’s ties to the school marched Wednesday, nearly coming to blows with his conservative-leaning supporters.
Around 100 people rallied on the suburban Phoenix campus to urge the university to disavow the 18-year-old, who was acquitted of murder in November in deadly shootings during last year’s unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They walked to the administration office chanting phrases like “Killer Kyle off our campus.”
Zein Hajaig, a freshman, was among those in the rally. For him, it doesn’t matter that Rittenhouse is “legally not a murderer.”
“I don’t think anyone with a prior charge of those sorts would even be able to attend here,” Hajaig said. “I think we all know it goes without saying he was there to intimidate and hurt people of color or people who are supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Rittenhouse testified that he acted in self-defense when he killed two men and wounded a third with a semi-automatic rifle during protests over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white Kenosha police officer.
In his testimony, Rittenhouse also said he was taking online classes from ASU. University officials confirmed at the time he was an online student. That no longer is the case.
“Kyle Rittenhouse has not gone through the ASU admissions process. Our records show that he is not currently enrolled in any classes at ASU,” according to a statement from the university.There would be no rule to preclude him from reapplying. Rittenhouse said in recent interviews he is considering studying to be a lawyer or a nurse and will likely move out of the Midwest.
David Hancock, a spokesman for the Rittenhouse family, did not immediately respond to text messages seeking comment.
Student organizations want the university to prevent Rittenhouse from being able to enroll online or in-person. Their other demands include a statement against white supremacy and more support for multicultural spaces on campus.
Jay Thorne, an ASU spokesman, declined to comment on the planned rally.
There were about an equal number of Rittenhouse supporters. Many had signs and hats from Kari Lake’s campaign. They attempted to shout over the rally, saying remarks like “Not guilty. The former Phoenix TV anchor is running to be the Republican nominee for Arizona governor.
Former Republican Rep. Matt Salmon, who is running for Arizona governor, slammed the rally as an “ongoing harassment campaign” of someone who was not convicted of a crime. In a statement, he also criticized university officials for not speaking out more.
“It is time for the far-left to respect our judicial system, and it is time for administrators at ASU to stand up for the rule of law and protect their students from these thugs.”
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On what grounds should he be denied admission? Can’t be academics. Can’t be a criminal record. However the admissions department has seen fit to admit mindless idiots who are eager to protest without any just cause, just a mindless mob like the followers of Imhotep in “The Mummy”!
AND IF all those students really think ‘DEATH TO AMERICA”” is ok to say fine. START TREATING THEM JUST LIKE MUSLIM extremists… and send them all to gitmo.
No, that’s too good for them. Lock and load and mow them down.
Talk is cheap, just bring it on, we’ll be waiting for you. Bring all your friends too.
I think it is disgusting that ASU has a group of “socialists for America” -This is America, if they don’t like it here, let them go to another country that has socialism such as China or Russia! THEY are the ones who should be banned frojm the campus of ASU. Kyle Rittenhouse was never a White Supremist, the terms that Biden put on him and the Media took up. Kyle shot in self defense and was found not guilty so these uninformed students need to be the ones to be banned from ASU. If ASU does kick him out, then I hope he sues the campus! Shame on ASU for allowing this group to post signs that they hate America – they should be banned and not Kyle Rittenhouse
As i have repeatedly said, WE SHOULD HAVE NEVER ever stopped Joe Mccarthy’s purge of commies from this nation.
These socialist (communist) pukes are really chicken poop cowards. They talk big **** about how great communism is but NONE of them will even try to live in a communist country for even 1 year. Burned out Bernie always bragged about the USSR but he only visited for a few weeks then came back here. Viet Nam rolled out the red carpet for Jane Fonda but just like with burned out Bernie, she stayed a short time then comes back. These people are phonies and cowards.
The 6th Commandment says Thou shalt not MURDER! Kyle didnt Murder anyone.
Roger that, it was mercy killing.
Arizona State University, is the home of The Democrat Communist Party of America.
Kyle Rittenhouse, is an American HERO.
B.L.M. = “BLUE LIVES MATTER”. Period
Time for these young liberals to go to Africa and the middle east and south east Asia and live for a couple of years if they can.
BETTER YET< send them all to a socialist nation, AND LEAVE THEM THERE.
The students at ASU who call themselves Americans4socialism are certainly showing their ignorance of the socialist movement and what it does in countries that are socialistic. Why don’t they travel to Venezuela and stay there under socialism for a while. See if they still want it after that. Of course their answer will be not all socialist countries are like Venezuela but they are wrong on that count. We would love to furnish each of those students free tickets to Venezuela, one way tickets of course.
WAKE UP AMERICA AND BEWARE OF PEOPLE WHO PUSH SOCIALISM BUT HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANS FOR FREEDOM!!!
I’m glad these useless waste of air and space America Hating scum are upset and pissed off…GOOD… what else can we do to make their lives as miserable as possible and whip them into a complete over adrenalized frenzy to the point that they can’t function. All the conservatives down there should just surround them point and laugh, moon them, make fun of them… hold up great big Rittenhouse signs with his picture on it that says Rittenhouse for President!!! SCREW EM’
Makes ME wonder. WHO are these cretins parent(S), and what do THEY THINK about their ‘socialist loving kids’?
Probably the majority of non-Conservative, college indoctrinated clowns who either don’t pay attention to the important aspects of child rearing over and above paying the expenses.
I’d bet the farm the parents are libtards or libtard light to begin with and are proud of their little socialist tax deductions…. while they go to their over payed capitalist jobs that help fund the indoctrination’s. Anyone of those scum protesting our country demanding death to it should have their government funding or “loan” (that we all know will never be paid) revoked.
This is why we need to go back to where ENTRY TO COLLEGE is not based on ‘do you have the dosh’, but DO YOU QUALIFY BASED ON SCORES and merit.
after thought : lets start a go fund me … to send Rittenhouse to Hillsdale college … it’s light years ahead of any government funded indoctrination center.
I’m on board. I send Hillsdale a check every year. Used to do same with Salvation Army, but being too white, will send it to Tunnel to Towers instead.
What he should do, is after winning all his defamation lawsuits, is BUY that college, then boot out all these woke idiot students.
This is a civilization in terminal decline. The prosperity and growth started by the Industrial Revolution over 150 years ago has finally led to the most recent two generations of Americans…. I speak of millennials and gen-z…. who are soft, weak, lazy, and ignorant beyond measure. Give it 20 or 30 years, and there won’t be enough skilled people to keep the electricity flowing or clean water coming out of the tap… but there will be more than enough people crying about “white supremacy” and screaming “Death to America”…
Roger that! I just call them useless, weak and stupid, but we’re on the same exact page.
See: “Losing Confidence in the Pillars of Our Civilization” by Victor Davis Hanson.
“I don’t think anyone with a prior charge of those sorts would even be able to attend here,” Hajaig said.” But you obviously approve of signs being carried that read: “Death to America”.
Every damned one of these Socialist students should be expelled and kicked out of the country.
The school’s funding should be decreases for allowing anti-America demonstrations.
AND publicly STRIPPED of their US citizenship! If they have one that is.
Well these people need to watch out for the killer shadows!
are you gonna cry are ya cry baby cry cry.
candy ### college students who have no brains and no soul and bow to the altar of evil.
head em up move em out.
Anyone carrying a death to America sign should be removed from this country she hates so much and her place at school should be given to Kyle Rittenhouse immediately.
Exactly. IF they hate this nation so much< KICK THEM OUT to a country, more to their liking…
try the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
They want Socialism but socialism doesn’t allow protest. Do they not understand?? Maybe we need to raise the standards to get into college
All Such Individuals as these should be sent to Venezuela for Schooling !!!! This is still America, Land Of The Free and Brave!!!!
These days, its more “The land of the perpetually offended, and home of the beta cuck simps”.
Just another bunch of educated idiots who would rather follow satan then Jesus. Too bad their parents cannot be tried for abusing their kids minds causing them to react like rabid animals.
Interesting. I see that the systemically oppressed BIPOC girl (unable to determine its pronouns—sorry) in the left foreground, who, judging by the Arabic script on her sign, may also be an oppressed Muslim, is holding what looks like a very expensive iphone 13 Pro Max. I know a ****load of privileged white persons who can’t afford one of those. Tell me again because I’m not sure I get it . . .
Why am I supposed to feel guilty about what we white folks have done to those poor, maltreated BIPOCs?
Makes ME wonder, who Bought “IT” that phone.
ASU is located in Tempe, Arizona. It’s marketed as a research institute in one of Phoenix, Arizona’s suburbs. It has a yearly average enrollment of some 44,036 (their marketing bio). Of this “pool of student – graduation rates” are from a low of 18% to a high of 66%. Folks, that’s less than half of 44,000 rates of graduations. That is why ASU has such abject failures in both private and public sectors of State’s economy (gotta cheat to get ahead). Also, explains the “get-rich-quick” syndrome driving the State Educational system run by and operated for US Communist Party. Yes, Two hours south, Tucson, Arizona is another “center for dogma and indoctrination”…feeding the Communist Party faithful. Students at Arizona’s “higher learning” are professionally trained “Left-Of-Center” party operatives…that’s less than 50% effort to “Get-Rich-Quick” in public sector. Need proof? Analyze the picture. Pray. Amen. God Bless America. Read A Bible. KJV. Psalm 128. 10 Commandments everywhere. Bible and Tutor Pods to combat CRT. Pledge of Allegiance in ALL education to decimate CRT and LGBTQ ideologies. Contract with America. Amen.
I’m not bragging, but in ’61 or ’62 when I took the SATs, my combined score was mid-1500s, partly because I knew the most efficient way to take multiple guess tests and partly because I didn’t let school cut into my reading time. Any more, if the test is even given, people have heart palpitations and nocturnal emissions about scores of 1200. Hell, it’s all laid out in the movie, “Idiocracy”.
Arizona has lots of Hispanics and their student group is called, MECHA. They are behind a lot of garbage.
Pure garbage.
Hajaig said. “I think we all know it goes without saying he was there to intimidate and hurt people of color or people who are supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Right, even though everyone involved was White.
And we college graduates all know that is called a “leap” of logic – or an assumption on his part.
What language is on that sign the woman is holding and why does she get to dictate what anyone does in America?
LOL!
The taxpayers of Arizona, and if ASU gets federal grants, the taxpayers of the US get to dictate policy more than some student who is not yet an adult….most likely. Not to mention that she was probably raised in another country.
And these students jumping to conclusions – wow. I learned not to do that in 6th grade!
According to them, anyone walking down the street near them MIGHT possibly be out to get them.
Kyle, please go to a college in a Republican state! Arizona has lots of retirees who are Republicans, but their young people may not necessarily be.
Don’t put yourself in harm’s way.