On Thursday, on the anniversary of its founder’s assassination on a Utah college campus, far-right nonprofit Turning Point USA will host a vigil at the University of Texas at San Antonio for Charlie Kirk, according to details posted online.
The event, dubbed “Freedom Built to Last,” comes after tensions arose on college campuses nationwide in the wake of the conservative provocateur’s shooting by a lone gunman. UTSA officials didn’t respond to the Current’s request for comment about whether the school plans additional security for the gathering.
Shortly after Kirk’s assassination, Turning Point USA’s UTSA chapter held an on-campus vigil for the controversial podcaster. One student, 19-year-old Xaelyn Dunbar, was arrested over allegations he made threatening online comments about the event, reportedly threatening to use his truck to “make sure this won’t be a good nor comforting vigil.”
In the aftermath of Kirk’s death, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered investigations of public school teachers and university professors who made disparaging social media posts about his passing.
Similar investigations and purges initiated by Republican elected officials nationwide upended the lives of some 600 people who made remarks about Kirk after his death, Reuters reports. A new analysis by online news outlet The Intercept found that some of those individuals remain without jobs after being caught up in “one of the biggest mass censorship campaigns in modern history.”
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