Texas Tech student’s arrest at Kirk vigil adds to free-speech debate - The Washington Post

In a video of the incident, Booker can be seen jumping up and down, yelling profanity and taunting people attending the vigil about Kirk’s death. “Y’all homie dead,” she said at one point.

On Sunday, Abbott shared the video of the confrontation on the social media website X and said Booker had “definitely picked the wrong school to taunt the death of Charlie Kirk.” In another post with a photo of Booker being handcuffed, he wrote: “this is what happened to the person who was mocking Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Texas Tech.”

Government officials haven’t policed speech in this manner since Sen. Joseph McCarthy led a crackdown on communists and other left-wing figures during the Cold War, said Timothy Shiell, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin at Stout who has studied free speech on campus. “People’s attitude seem to be free speech for me, but not for thee,” Shiell said. “The more politically polarized things get, the more entrenched people get in that attitude.”

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