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‘Charlie had it coming,’ heckler said
Ohio University’s Turning Point USA chapter experienced threats and harassment on Monday, both online and on campus, during a tabling event.
“We set up a table outside of the Baker Student Center on campus and had the intention of having a successful activism event,” a chapter member said, according to TPUSA HQ.
“We had numerous hostile encounters, including people yelling at us from cars, mocking Charlie getting shot in the neck while walking by, people stating that ‘Charlie had it coming,’ etc.,” the student said.
They also said they had heated arguments with other students and “numerous awful things” were posted about them on a social media platform called Yik Yak. The students continued tabling “despite the hostility,” the student said.
However, the students called the university police when one user threatened gun violence to stop the group’s event.
In response to a question asking how long TPUSA will be on campus, the user wrote, “until I come with my gun.”
Another user responded, saying, “I’ll be there to prevent anyone from stopping you.”
A different user on Yik Yak wrote that “Anyone who supports the current administration doesn’t deserve to be alive.”
Former Ohio State Rep. Jay Edwards posted about the incident on X, writing, “some anonymous liberal coward on a college app posted a blatant threat to murder conservative students.”
Edwards also demanded an investigation by local law enforcement, calling death threats “domestic terrorism.”
“If this were aimed at left-wing snowflakes, Democrats would be screaming for a national emergency, FBI raids, and endless headlines. But since it’s conservatives? Crickets from the tolerant left,” he wrote.
TPUSA chapters have faced increased hostility since the assassination of the group’s founder, Charlie Kirk.
In December, leaders of a TPUSA chapter at Olivet Nazarene University were forced off campus for their safety after receiving death threats, The College Fix previously reported.
“The first death threat that I received was anonymous through Instagram,” President Jacob York said.
“It said that someone was going to come in the middle of the night and slit my throat,” he said.
Meanwhile, self-described “anti-fascist community members” recently opposed a new TPUSA chapter at Northwestern Michigan College.
“I don’t feel safe with TPUSA,” one protester’s sign read.
