Liberal students hijacked a pro-life event at a Virginia university as protesters chanted ‘f**k pro-life’ and threw violent ‘punch punches’, injuring one.
Kristen Hawkins was speaking at Virginia Commonwealth University for her Lies Pro-Choicers Believe tour when liberal students and denounced members of Antifa, a far-left group, hijacked the event and began insulting her and her co-speaker, Isabel Brown. .
“We came to @VCU a public university to talk about abortion and we were attacked,” Hawkins wrote on Twitter. ‘VCU, you should be ashamed of yourselves for allowing this and shutting down any freedom of thought or expression at your university.’
Videos from Wednesday’s event show protesters chanting ‘f**k pro-lifers’ and ‘out Nazi fascists’ and ‘Nazis go home’ as the two women stand at podiums ready to speak.
In video posted by Students for Life, the organization that held the event at the school, Hawkins is shown approaching school security in the hallway as protesters continued to yell.
Liberal students hijacked a pro-life event at a Virginia college as protesters chanted ‘f**k pro-life’
Videos from the event show protesters chanting ‘f**k pro-lifers’ and ‘out Nazi fascists’ and ‘Nazis go home’ while speakers Kristen Hawkins and Isabel Brown were at the podium waiting to speak.
A student pointed at the protesters as the group shouted obscenities.
Eventually, students were seen huddled in one place as someone yelled, ‘She’s being attacked! They are robbing her!
Brown claimed that fists were thrown and that Students for Life chapter president Autumn Higashi was injured. DailyMail.com has reached out to Higashi for comment.
Two members of the women’s private security, as well as local police, rushed in and threw the protesters across the room before someone yelled: ‘Hey! Listen! Take it easy! Everybody get the hell out of here!’
The students responded: ‘You go first!’
In response, school staff removed Hawkins, Brown and other pro-lifers from the room as students continued to yell.
“VCU campus police are shutting down our peaceful assembly because of these fascists,” Hawkins said in the video. “So they’re going to let these big whiners, these fascists, get away with it.”
Brown revealed on his Twitter page that they were “escorted into a locked room for about two hours for our own ‘security’ while violent protesters walked free. [and] stood in line for Chick-fil-A (oh, the irony)’.
Kristen Hawkins was speaking at Virginia Commonwealth University on Wednesday for her Lies Pro-Choicers Believe tour when liberal students and informed members of Antifa, a far-left group, hijacked the event and began insulting her and her co-speaker. Elizabeth Brown.
Students for Life, the organization that organized the event, claimed that Antifa members were among the students and that a counter-demonstration banner was floating online (pictured)
‘We get questions from pro-life and pro-choice students both in the midst of the madness and in the closed room, catalyzing a dialogue that is clearly not happening in Richmond. Until every student has the opportunity to broaden her perspectives, our work on college campuses will not be done,” she wrote.
“Why the violent protesters weren’t removed, but two pro-life women were, still baffles me.”
In a livestream Wednesday night, Brown claimed she lost her “Antifa virginity tonight” and was shocked by the “violent” protests she experienced on campus.
“I never expected Richmond, Virginia to be the epicenter of all things crazy and violent protest until tonight,” he said on the live stream.
She said that when she and Hawkins arrived on campus, they noticed that there were a lot of “openly leftist people” wearing masks, all black, and having “a lot of gender confusion.”
Hawkins and Brown were informed before the start of their speech that protesters were filling the room, but they welcomed the opposition. Brown claimed that they offered the protesters the opportunity to ask their questions first, but the protesters flatly denied the opportunity.
Brown also claimed that the student became violent and began throwing “punches.” He also claimed that Students for Life chapter president Autumn Higashi (pictured) was injured in the event.
Natalie Hoskins III, 22, and Anthony Marvin, 30, who are not associated with the school, were arrested at the event, according to foxnews. Hoskin was charged with assault, while Marvin was charged with disorderly conduct.
Students for Life identified some of the protesters as Antifa based on their signs and clothing, and the group’s chief media strategist, Kristi Hamrick, pointed out to Fox News posts floating online directing students to a “counter-demonstration.” ‘.
The flyer was posted by Kristopher Goad, who has ties to Antifa, according to Fox News. Goad, however, denies promoting the event, but said he was covering it as a ‘local journalist’.
“I was not promoting the event or a protest, but was reporting on it accurately to the best of my ability. It was Students For Life security who assaulted protesters who were taking part in a First Amendment speech at a public event,” Goad told Fox News.
Students for Life has asked the school to allow the women to return to campus to give their speeches, but it is unclear if the university will allow it.