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There are several student organizations at Arizona State University pressing their administration to “withdraw” Kyle Rittenhouse from the university.
The Arizona State University Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine, Multicultural Solidarity Coalition, and MECHA de ASU are lobbying for the Arizona State University administration to withdraw Rittenhouse from the university and release a statement against him.
Rittenhouse had faced charges after fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020, and on Nov. 19 the jury returned a not guilty verdict on all charges
The groups are also demanding for the university administration to “reaffirm support for the multicultural center on campus as a safe space from White Supremacy.”
The groups are also demanding the administration redirect funding from the Arizona State University Police Department to the multicultural center and “the establishment of a care center on campus.”
Furthermore, they will be hosting a “Rally and protest to get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off our campus” on Dec. 1 at Arizona State University.
Join us and rally against racist murderer Kyle Rittenhouse being permitted on our campus – Wednesday at 3:30 outside the Nelson Fine Arts Center on campus pic.twitter.com/4Hs3JxRqtY
— Students for Socialism ASU 🚩 (@SFSASU) November 26, 2021
“Even with a not-guilty verdict from a flawed ‘justice’ system – Kyle Rittenhouse is still guilty to his victims and the families of those victims,” the demand letter states. “Join us to demand from ASU that those demands be met to protect students from a violent blood-thirsty murderer.”
A Students for Socialism at Arizona State University spokesperson said the goal of the demands is to make the university administration understand that they do not feel safe knowing that a “mass shooter” is enrolled in the school.
“The goal of these demands is to let the ASU administration know that we as the ASU community do not feel safe knowing that a mass shooter, who has expressed violent intentions about ‘protecting property’ over people, is so carelessly allowed to be admitted to the school at all,” the spokesperson said. “Our campus is already unsafe as is, and we would like to abate this danger as much as possible.”
The Students for Socialism chapter spokesperson argued that the Rittenhouse trial “effectively gives right-winged individuals the license to kill other individuals who protest for human rights.”
“Rittenhouse took the lives of innocent people with the intent to do so—by strapping an assault rifle to himself in a crowd of unarmed citizens. That is the textbook definition of intention. The decision made by the court is one of thousands of cases that have been influenced by biased judges, predominantly white juries, and mistakes inherent in a judicial system founded off of injustice, to begin with,” the spokesperson said.
