"We need to call them out, we need to show everyone - this is how they process the logic behind the gun industry." "These two guys are part of the problem," Manuel Oliver told BuzzFeed News. The stunt was designed to highlight how powerful gun advocates speak. "You’re telling me the whole thing was a setup?" said Lott, when he responded to BuzzFeed News' request for comment. Most movements or events are planned out ahead of time, but no one had any idea Bennett was coming until she’d already arrived.After filming, Keene and Lott were told the graduation was canceled and were not informed before the videos were released on Wednesday that the event was fake. Gabriela Gabennesch, a third-year photojournalist, said she’d never seen a protest of this size on campus before. I don’t know if she thinks she’s going to change anyone’s mind out here.” “I think it’s just kind of attention-seeking behavior. “I kind of feel like she just came here to get this reaction,” sophomore Liam McSteen told the Athens News.
But few of Bennett’s previous appearances received a response as massive as this one. More often than not, in Bennett’s published interviews, the people she prods disagree with her views. She’s courted controversy for her comments about transgender people and has called herself a woman of color. Ohio University students quickly mobilizedīennett regularly visits college campuses, political rallies and community events like LGBTQ Pride and interviews people for the fringe right-wing website Infowars or her own outlet, Liberty Hangout. “The University urges its community to respect the rights guaranteed to all under the state and federal constitutions,” the statement said. In a statement to CNN, Ohio University said it’s committed to allowing the “free and peaceful exchange” of ideas. “Contrary to allegations circulating on social media, the incident did not rise to the level of a riot,” police said in a statement. The students were exercising their First Amendment rights just as Bennett was, police said.
She called on President Trump to “strip funding from universities like this that harbor terrorists” and later vowed to return to campus with an “army of gun owners” for an “open carry walk.”ĬNN reached out to Bennett’s social media account and Liberty Hangout, the website she contributes to, for comment.īennett left less than two hours after she arrived, Donaldson told CNN.ĭespite the tension, Ohio University police said there were no injuries or violent outbreaks reported during the protest. “Leftists at started a riot when and I showed up, and let it happen.” “This is what happens when a Trump supporter goes to a college campus,” she tweeted. She accused students of throwing “projectiles” and dumping hot coffee on her.
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n1GZbkJhZj- sarah donaldson February 17, 2020īennett shared a video of students gathered around the orange truck she was in as it slowly drove through a parking lot, and some threw water at its windows while she filmed them. OUPD officer talking to Bennett’s security detail. In footage captured by Sarah Donaldson, digital editor for student paper The New Political, students lined all five floors of the university’s student center as Bennett and her bodyguard traveled down the escalator. But hundreds of students showed up to protest her appearance.īennett, a controversial activist who drew attention for taking graduation photos with an AR-10 rifle strapped to her back at Kent State University, said she was in Athens, Ohio, on Monday to film a video for Presidents Day.īut as soon as students got word she was there, crowds of protesters descended on Bennett as she walked around the campus. Conservative media personality Kaitlin Bennett didn’t announce she was visiting Ohio University.
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