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Brave University of North Texas Student Confronts Classmates Laughing at Charlie Kirk Assassination Video

Jim Hᴏft

A courageous young woman at the University of North Texas (UNT) is speaking out after being mocked, harassed, and removed from class for defending the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, just hours after his shocking assassination during a live campus debate.

Mary Catherine, a student at UNT, shared her powerful testimony on TikTok, describing the disturbing experience she endured in her quantitative methods class, where she says classmates not only celebrated Kirk’s death but cheered the brutal act as they passed around the assassination video.

She says the students even began wishing the same fate on President Donald Trump and other conservatives. When Mary Catherine dared to call out the grotesque display, she says the mob turned on her, ridiculing her and shouting her down.

What’s even more alarming, the professor, who had been silently observing the commotion, didn’t address the students laughing at a murder video. Instead, he approached Mary Catherine, told her to “take it outside,” and then laughed.

Mary Catherine later learned, while reporting the incident to university administrators, that Kirk had succumbed to his injuries. The realization hit her hard.

Despite going directly to the dean of students, Mary Catherine says she was told there was essentially nothing the administration could do. She was directed to the Department of Psychology, where she was again met with indifference.

When she finally met with the chair, she says she asked for one simple thing: to have the absence removed from her record, since she was forced out of class for her own safety and emotional well-being.

Despite feeling that “no one really cared,” Mary Catherine says she’s proud she stood up to the mob.

Transcript:

“The story begins at 3:20 today. I was headed to my quantitative methods class. I got there at 3:20. Class starts at 3:30. I like to get there a little bit early so I can get a front spot because this class is particularly hard. I’m sitting there, and all of this… there’s probably 115 students in this class. It’s a particularly big class.

I’m sitting there and I hear a girl go, “Did you all hear that Charlie Kirk got shot?” I had already known. I knew before I walked into that class. But I heard it and I was just like, “Interesting. Whatever.” Because I’m sitting there trying to do some work on my computer before class starts.

A girl says, “Oh, my gosh, who’s Charlie Kirk?” And she’s like, “Oh, my gosh, he’s just racist. He’s homophobic. He’s against abortions and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”

She’s just going off at this point. I’m just like, whatever. I don’t have the energy to intervene or the courage. Then she was like, “Do you all want to see the video of him getting shot?”

That’s when I was like, I turn around and I see her showing the video to some of the classmates, which I’ll do another video with the videos that I got. But she’s showing the video of him getting shot and everyone’s like, “Oh, my gosh.”

Right when it stopped, everyone starts clapping and cheering. They’re like, “Oh, my gosh, Charlie Kirk, he’s going to die. I can’t wait. Oh, my gosh, this is the best day ever.” They were like, “This needs to happen to Trump.” And they start saying other names.

This is when I stood up. She was like, “Yeah, and I’m pretty sure he has a family and two little girls. This is awesome. They’re going to grow up without a dad.” That’s when I turned around and I was like… I started videoing.

I said, “Okay, so we’re going to start wishing death upon people.” I was like, “No matter what your political beliefs are,” I was like, “This shouldn’t even be being brought up in this class.”

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