A film crew affiliated with Turning Point USA allegedly pushed an ASU English professor to the ground while trying to confront him about a drag story hour group he co-founded.
The right-wing group Turning Point USA has found itself at the center of a hate crime investigation after two local members of the group allegedly assaulted a queer professor at Arizona State University on Wednesday.
Two members identified of the conservative group waited outside the classroom of David Boyles, an English professor at the college and co-founder of Drag Story Hour Arizona, according to a statement by ASU President Michael Crow. The pair then harassed and shoved him to the ground, “bloodying his face,” Crow wrote in a letter to faculty and staff.
“This is the kind of outrageous conduct that you would expect to see from bullies in a high school cafeteria,” wrote Crow. In security camera footage captured by the ASU Police Department, two men clad in all black clothing can be seen surrounding Boyles as he passes through a courtyard. As Boyles reaches his arm out toward their camera, one of the men, identified as Kalen D’Almeida, runs up behind Boyles and forcefully knocks him to the ground.
“You can’t run,” D’Almeida told Boyles in a clip of the altercation posted the following day, according to NBC. “It’s best if you just talk to me on why you want to push sodomy to young people.” In a Facebook post sharing his condition, Boyles said his injuries were “relatively minor” but that the incident left him feeling “angry, violated, embarrassed, and despairing” that society has come to “normalize this kind of harassment and violence against anyone who tries to support LGBTQ+ youth.”
Police are investigating the altercation as a “potential bias or prejudicially motivated incident,” reported KPNX-TV. “Cowards that they are and so confident in the legality and appropriateness of their actions, the Turning Point USA ‘reporter’ and ‘cameraman’ then ran away from the scene before police arrived,” Crow noted.
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Charlie Kirk is a traitor and a domestic terrorist. He should be in jail right along side Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys for organizing the 1/6 insurrection by sending bus loads of domestic terrorists to D.C. to storm the Capitol.
He sure did stop talking about those “buses loaded with patriots” pretty quickly.
Oh yeah, funny how fast “80 buses” became 7.
Although I fully believe he was only able to send 7 and that 80 figure was always just standard conservative bullshit.
Right, I thought his original statement were BS. I bet the seven busses weren’t even full
Amen to THAT.
Fuck Republicans. Just a bunch of terrorists.
Charlie Kirk is a fascist.
With a surprisingly small face
Face as big as his dignity
No no i think his face still exists, mind you I think it is shrinking.
I often can’t tell if it’s his real face, or if it’s been digitally shrunken
Combination of receding hairline, no stylist, and surrounded by yes-men
Legend has it, Charlie Kirk has a painting of his face in his attic. Everytime he releases a shitty hot take video, his own face shrinks, while the one in the painting grows larger.
That thing must take up the whole attic by now
They know. They don’t care- that’s the problem.
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Yeah. It’s infuriating how mainstream media insists on using the same terms for right wing domestic terrorists and left wing people who care about social and political issues!
“Stop union busting” and “stop forcing sodomy on children” are NOT equivalent statements and the fact that it even needs to be said is fucking dystopian!
Both of those statements come from the left though. A statement from the right would be something like “just move the priest/cop to another town to avoid hurting their reputation”
It’s best if you just talk to me on why you want to push sodomy to young people
That’s iterally a quote from one of the right wing troglodytes who assaulted the professor, so I don’t know what you mean by “coming from the left”.
Unless you’re pretending to be on the left in spite of believing the anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech of the fascists…
I think we’re talking cross purposes. Only the left is against kiddy diddling. The right either accepts it (shell game with priests) or normalizes it (no age requirements for marriage)
My point was that only the far to extreme right consider it acceptable to lob that accusation at innocent people solely because they’re LGBTQ+…
That being said… While it’s true that most child abusers are right wing, saying that most right wing people are fine with child abuse is going way too far.
Yea, most right wingers enable pedophiles, not literally are one.
Though IMO, enablers of such horrible things are similarly guilty. Like handing a drunk their car keys.
I see no serious call from Republicans to get Gaetz to step down, for instance.
Enablers.
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I didn’t say none, I said not the majority 🤷
“Cowards that they are and so confident in the legality and appropriateness of their actions, the Turning Point USA ‘reporter’ and ‘cameraman’ then ran away from the scene before police arrived,” Crow noted.
Of course they ran away. They were all big and brave until they realized they might be held accountable
It’s just like the Bigly Manly Men who threw an insurrection were mostly in hiding until getting outed, sometimes YEARS later. When they show up in court, instead of being The Vanguard For Patriotic Freedom and other horseshit narratives, they were just “tourists” there to “peacefully protest”.
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Hate group.
The turn to violence is happening sooner than I expected.
This is your friendly reminder to everyone to go get armed and get training on how to use your weapon of choice properly. Situations like this are going to start to become commonplace. Don’t let yourself become a hate crime statistic.
Don’t let yourself become a hate crime statistic.
Instead become a gun crime statistic.
So long as it’s one of the 2 million estimated self-defense uses per year, we’re golden
In my country, I’m not allowed to carry anything that could be used as an offensive weapon. That includes pepper spray, tasers, brass knuckles, sticks, knives, literally anything that cna be used as a weapon.
I’m about to move to a new city and one of the first things I’m going to do is sign up to an MMA gym. Fists aren’t much use against a weapon but at least I’ll have some means to defend myself against violence if it becomes unavoidable.
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This is how fascism begins. See the history of the Nazis. Even the Nazis did not go full Nazi right away, it was incremental.
This isn’t how fascism begins because this is like a good 30% of the way into fascism
Conservatism is a plague in need of a cure. Historically, pacifism has never been an effective treatment for conservatism. This disease will kill us all if we let it.
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