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Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren’s speech was shut down by violent protesters at the University of New Mexico last Thursday, prompting the school to launch an investigation to see “who violated the law.”
Groups organized the protest on social media with an image that said, “F**K WHITE SUPREMACY — Rally Against Tomi Lahren’s Speech at UNM — We Won’t Allow Racist Rhetoric to be Spread on Our Campus Unopposed.”
Video from the event shows angry protesters trying to force their way into the auditorium while chanting “F**k Tomi Lahren!”, resulting in Lahren and her father and TPUSA staffers retreating to a back room for their safety.
The violent demonstration was praised by the left on social media.
We kicked @TomiLahren out of @UNM campus and it took less than an hour of disruption. It's our duty to shut down white supremacist organizing every chance we get.
Fuck Tomi Lauren. Fuck White Supremacy. pic.twitter.com/20fd2NW4WA
— Johnny Juarez (@pueblobaddie) September 16, 2022
Lahren joined Fox News on Friday to explain how the violent mob compelled her to call the police to safely escort her from the premises.
“I would not have gotten out of there last night if it wasn’t for New Mexico State Police and Albuquerque P.D. I would not have gotten out of there, so I owe them a lot,” Lahren told Fox News from an Albuquerque hotel room.
“We were told that they were going to be out in the courtyard, not allowed into the student union, these counter-protesters or whatever they were. We were told that they’re going to be kept outside.”
“I start my speech and you can hear the chants and you can hear the screaming and the expletives,” Lahren continued. “And again, nobody really thought anything of it. They’re just, you know, fired up. And I didn’t really think too much of it until they started pushing past the officers and banging on the doors so much that these double doors are visibly moving and shaking and they are smashing into the windows. And that’s when it became incredibly chaotic.”
“Everybody was worried that they were going to get inside. They were pushing officers in front of the doors and pushing them out of the way. I mean, attacking them. It started to get very ugly and very violent, very fast. Of course, we could only see through these little windows in the front the room we were in, so we couldn’t really see exactly what was going on out there.”
“At that point, they made the decision that we could probably end the speech and I needed to get somewhere in case they did break through the doors, because it started to become apparent that that might be a very realistic possibility,” Lahren said. “So, they escorted me with a couple of Campus PD officers into the back kitchen of the student union, and we were just barricaded back there, for lack of a better term, because they didn’t know how to get me out.”
“I see these far left accounts and these Antifa accounts bragging about what they had done, that they had shut down the event, releasing videos. Everybody had their cell phones out,” she added.
University of New Mexico spokesperson Cinnamon Blair released a statement pledging that the students who participated in canceling Lahren “will be held accountable for their actions.”
The University of New Mexico is committed to the principles of free speech and values its role as a public square for debate, a marketplace of ideas, and a place to test and challenge competing viewpoints and opinions. In this context, allowing speakers invited by a student organization on campus in no way implies an endorsement of the content of their speeches or their opinions. And those who disagree with the ideas expressed are encouraged to respectfully voice their perspectives.
The safety of our campus community and visitors is our first priority. We are deeply disappointed in the actions of those individuals who intentionally chose to disrupt a scheduled speaker and infringed upon the rights of the speaker and those who attended the event to listen and engage, vandalized University property and unlawfully pulled a fire alarm.
UNM is investigating these incidents and will hold anyone who violated the law or University policies accountable. Additionally, several UNM departments will be meeting to discuss improving the environment in which a speaker’s right to conduct their scheduled programming is ensured along with the public’s right to free speech, especially when our facilities are in use for multiple events at the same time.
Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks on free speech are widely celebrated by the left.
In fact, a recent poll from the Pew Research Center found that nearly half of the public supports corporate and government-backed censorship to fight “misinformation” and “hate speech.”
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