Students at Northern Arizona University (NAU) are going viral for vandalizing, threatening, and stealing from a booth belonging to the campus chapter of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), a conservative activist group.
One unidentified student pushed the merchandise off the chapter’s table onto the ground and stole one of their signs.
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Another unidentified student handed a drawing depicting the assassination of the late TPUSA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk. The drawing included the last words he’d spoken prior to his death.
“Free speech!” the note read, with drawn hearts. “A good Nazi is a dead one.”
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Kirk’s final words leading up to his death were a partial response to an individual’s question. Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University while hosting an outdoor event, part of his debate series “The American Comeback Tour.”
NAU doesn’t condone “threats of violence, stalking, or intimidation” on its campuses. NAU has a Threat Assessment and Management Team committed to preventing violence by assessing and responding to “concerning behavior.” TAMT includes members from the NAU Police Department, Human Resources, Student Affairs, and Legal Affairs.
As of this report, NAU hasn’t issued a public statement addressing either incident.
NAU leadership appears to side with Kirk’s opponents.
Rima Brusi, an honors professor and wife to NAU president Jose Luis Cruz Rivera, agrees with those on the left that Kirk was “a bad person.” Brusi stated in a Facebook post that this belief doesn’t mean justification for Kirk’s assassination.
“[Kirk] was demonstrably and consistently a bad person,” stated Brusi. “Saying that ‘those who say [Kirk] was a bad person did damage are celebrating his murder’ is propaganda, not a logical conclusion — except when ‘those’ who are truly ‘rejoicing’ not just pointing out basic facts showing that [Kirk] was a bad human, or reminding us of facts such as ‘the murder of W and Z went unacknowledged’).”
The individual facing charges for Kirk’s assassination, Tyler Robinson, reportedly targeted Kirk for his religious and political beliefs. Kirk was a Christian.
According to police interviews with Robinson’s family, Robinson disliked individuals with right-wing beliefs.
Another relative told Fox News Digital that Robinson “hates conservatives and Christians,” sentiments which became “progressively worse” in the last few years. Robinson also had a same-sex partner, Lance Twiggs, who was in the process of transitioning genders from male to female.
“He hated us,” said the Robinson relative. “He was not raised that way but he, over the years, has become really detached [and] has been radicalized.”
Twiggs reportedly fled the residence he and Robinson shared in the aftermath of police interrogations and public reporting of his identity.
Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, took over as CEO of TPUSA for her late husband. Kirk left behind his wife and two young children, a daughter and a son.
Many on the left celebrated Kirk’s death online and in protests. Other progressive activists took to the streets to vandalize memorials for the late conservative pundit.
In the weeks following the assassination, 19-year-old Ryder Corral was arrested for destroying a Kirk memorial outside TPUSA headquarters in Phoenix.
Corral wore a shirt similar to the one worn by the assassin.
Newspaper records reveal Corral hailed from Palm Springs, California prior to moving to Mesa. Records from 2023 also indicated Corral intended on attending a community college in California, the College of the Desert.
Kirk’s memorial service last month at the State Farm Stadium also drew out leftist and fringe protesters. Some of their language bordered on violence.
An unidentified woman, “Catherine,” called for the death of a woman’s unborn child outside the memorial service, and held aloft a sign indicating her support for the public executions of individuals who share Kirk’s beliefs.
If you destroy someone elses property through theft, and vandalism, doesn’t that make you a bad person too? Its okay for someone to think Charlie Kirk is a “bad” person. Thats their opinion and they are entitled to it, right or wrong. To act out on that notion is not. There are many people we can agree are bad people. But an opinion about a person or group cannot justify destructive , and yes, violent behavior. Has TPUSA done anything beyond stepping up their efforts to reach college students to share the message of TPUSA? I for one believe that these students who are on a path to destroy TPUSA property should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If they have no respect for one group its a fore gone conclusion they will have little respect for anything or person they disagree with.