Some of Kyle Rittenhouse’s fellow students at Arizona State University want him expelled despite a jury finding he acted in self-defense when he shot two people dead during riots in Wisconsin last year — even though school officials don’t believe he is enrolled.
Rittenhouse, who told Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson he takes online classes, recently said he would like to attend in person at some point. But a coalition of liberal student groups is calling on school administrators to kick him out.
UPDATE: KYLE RITTENHOUSE NO LONGER ENROLLED AT ASU
“Even with a not-guilty verdict from a flawed ‘justice’ system, Kyle Rittenhouse is still guilty to his victims and the family of those victims,” the coalition wrote in a statement posted on Friday. “Join us to demand from ASU that those demands be met to protect students from a blood-thirsty murderer.”
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
The coalition of student groups includes Mecha de ASU, Arizona State University Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Multicultural Solidarity Coalition.
The coalition has made four demands of campus leadership, including withdrawing Rittenhouse from enrollment, releasing a statement condemning Rittenhouse and white supremacy, reaffirming support for the Multicultural Center, and redirecting funding from ASU’s police department to the Multicultural Center.
This comes despite no evidence Rittenhouse is a white supremacist.
The students have also asked to establish a CAARE Center, which would provide “a healing space to address community needs and reduce health and socio/economic disparities.”
A Students for Socialism at Arizona State University spokesperson told Fox News the coalition intends to let the university administration know they do not feel safe knowing a “mass shooter” attends the school.
The organizers will also host a “Rally and protest to get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off our campus” on Wednesday.
An ASU spokesperson told the Washington Examiner Rittenhouse “has not gone through the ASU admissions process” and “is not currently enrolled in any classes at ASU.”
Rittenhouse, acquitted of all charges after shooting and killing two men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, announced he had enrolled virtually at ASU earlier this fall. While Rittenhouse said in court he intended to pursue a degree in nursing, an ASU spokesperson said he had not yet declared his major.
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Rittenhouse’s verdict has created tension on several campuses nationwide. Fitchburg State University sent out an email Nov. 19 encouraging students to attend racially segregated “processing spaces” after the verdict, mistakenly implying the still-living Jacob Blake had been killed.
