Kyle Rittenhouse spoke on campus at an event hosted by the WKU Turning Point USA chapter, addressing supporters and opposition on the evening of Wednesday, March 27. Rittenhouse shot three men two of whom died at a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020, using a semi automatic AR-15 style rifle.
Kyle Rittenhouse will be the guest speaker of the WKU chapter of Turning Point USA, a right-wing national organization. His visit to WKU has been criticized by a WKU faculty, students, student organizations; civil rights groups and community members.
The conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA and its Western Kentucky University chapter announced this month that Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 but was acquitted