An individual threatened to “Kirk” conservative students at the University of Utah on Monday, and then proceeded to gesture his hands in the motion of cocking a rifle aimed at them, according to a video recording of the event and police reports.
To the two students who sat at a table on campus, where they had set up an open mic in the hopes of engaging in debates with students passing by, his apparent threat insinuated that they should face the same fate as conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, when he was assassinated while holding a debate at Utah Valley University.
During a two-day public-forum debate, hosted by the Christian conservative group Reawaken USA with the Utah Federation of College Republicans, at the Salt Lake City campus on Monday, a student at the university who was passing by first refused to approach the microphone to engage with the students before allegedly threatening them…