'Gun Girl' Kaitlin Bennett claims 'liberals' called 911 on her
Kaitlin Bennett, who went viral on social media after posing for her Kent State University graduation photos with an AR-10, appeared at Rutgers University representing InfoWars on Monday. There, she claims, "liberals" called 911 on her and attempted to have her kicked off of school grounds.
According to The Daily Targum, the university's newspaper, Bennett, often referred to as the "Kent State Gun Girl," was at the New Brunswick, New Jersey campus on Monday to interview students on student debt for the publication. “I love being on college campuses because there are tons of people and lots of crazy opinions,” Bennett told the paper. “And so I love to capture them.”
However, according to Bennett, the feeling is not mutual. “I’ve found that a lot of students are super intolerant to me being on campus, they don’t want me here,” Bennett said. “They’ve told me to go home, they’ve interrupted my conversations with people, they’ve got in front of [the camera] just shouting into the microphone.”
In fact, in a tweet, Bennett alleges the campus police were called on her.
A group of liberals at @RutgersU called 911 to try having me kicked off campus because they didn't like that a conservative was talking to students in front of a communist's memorial. 5 cops showed up because someone they disagreed with engaged in free speech. Very progressive! pic.twitter.com/PWOz8Yvzt4
— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) April 30, 2019
Rutgers students dispute her claims and suggest that campus police were responding to the scene for disorderly conduct, in which a chant directed at Bennett, alluding to an offensive rumor previously published by Barstool Sports, broke out.
You can literally see in the video the people were upset about the people chanting about whatever unfortunate event happened to you at a party.
— Ammmmmmyy (@AmyMinell) April 30, 2019
None of “the kids” called 911. Campus police respond to disorderly situations on campus regularly.
— kennedy𖤐 (@imshego) April 30, 2019
According to NJ.com, Bennett was attempting to record in a recently dedicated space to Paul Robeson, a black political activist and Rutgers alumnus whose father escaped slavery. “This is the only space solely erected for the legacy of Paul Robeson,” one woman states in a video.
@KaitMarieox was asked repeatedly to move her interviews LITERALLY anywhere except for inside the newly created space dedicated to commemorating our notable Black alumnus, Paul Robeson. She later claims she respects the space, but stayed because she was being yelled at to move 🤔 pic.twitter.com/lAUvQMcV47
— Kaylin Nguyen (@kaylin_nguyen) April 30, 2019
"[Bennett] was asked repeatedly to move her interviews LITERALLY anywhere except for inside the newly created space dedicated to commemorating our notable Black alumnus, Paul Robeson. She later claims she respects the space, but stayed because she was being yelled at to move," one student tweeted about the incident. The student added that Bennett wasn't asked to leave campus, "Nor was she asked to leave the memorial for being white, conservative, or having opposing views. She was asked to take her conversations to the grass 10 feet away from the space dedicated to honoring a deceased alumnus.”
“We see this on college campuses all the time. The left will throw a temper tantrum, get their way, and then conservatives will feel like they are disenfranchised or underrepresented on their college campuses, in their classrooms, in their dorms because we don’t stand up for ourselves,” Bennett told NJ.com.
Rutgers University police did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s requests for comment, however, the university provided the following statement: "The video speaks for itself. Rutgers is committed to free speech and encourages respectful and vigorous discourse. Rutgers Police did not order anyone gathered... to leave campus."
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