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Logan, Utah – thousands of supporters gathered together to honor Charlie Kirk on Tuesday evening, as the Turn Point college tour in the United States first returned to Yuta since its founder was killed in the college campus in the beginning of this month.
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The stop at the state University of Utah in Logan is located about two hours north of the University of Utah -Valley, where Kirk was killed on September 10 by an action movie, who took one shot through the crowd when Kirk spoke.
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“If you expect AA funeral, if you have come to mourn the death of America, the death of masculinity and femininity, faith, truth, then you are not in that case. It has not ended yet. This is not even close, ”said Alex Clark Clark, the host of the leading podcast, which began the event, which, as she called the largest tour in the campus.
“I’m not here to praise Charlie Kirk,” she continued, but in order to “pass the torch to each of you.”
A few hours before the event in the campus, Logan temporarily evacuated the building after the “non-operational” device was discovered and blown up by the bombardment detachment “Due to the abundance of caution,” the warning says for students. The building is safe, the school said.
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The authorities are investigating, but the university does not believe that the package was a threat or is connected with the event in turning, AP said.
The safety at the event was cramped, with a severe presence in law enforcement agencies, the surrounding arena, metal detectors and drones flying above their heads. The college in which Kirk was killed did not have several key security measures and practice, which became standard at events throughout the country, showed an Associated Press.
The murder of the chief ally of President Donald Trump and an important figure in his movement “Make America the Great” again, galvanized conservatives who promised to fulfill the mission of Kirk to encourage young voters to accept conservatism and advance American politics further. Kirk was awarded as a “martyr” by many on the right, and “Turning Point”, the USA, saw tens of thousands of requests for the creation of new chapters in secondary schools and colleges.
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The event on Tuesday, planned before the death of Kirk, demonstrated how the turning point was moving forward without his influential leader, who entitled many of his events and attracted the crowd. The tour is entitled by some of the largest conservative names, including Tucker Carlson, Megin Kelly and Glenn Bek.
Wine game
The event on Tuesday showed the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox, a member of the House of Representatives of Andy Biggs and a former member of the House of Jason Chaffets in a panel that accused the left of the rhetoric, which led to the murder when Biggs said that it was “proceeding on the one hand”.
Chaffz was at the event on September 10, when Kirk was killed.
“It was scary because you did not know if there would be more shots,” he said. “You did not know if it was the end.”
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Cox, which was criticized as not enough conservatively sufficiently, was repeatedly sucking and mocked from the crowd, including when he admitted that “there are cruel people on the right.”
Nevertheless, he criticized the idea that speech is equated with violence.
“You think that then, because someone said something that you don’t like, this is violence for me, which justifies me cruel to this person for conversation. And this is exactly what happened in this case, and that this is the virus of the destructive mind in our society today, ”he said.
Participants pay tribute
The basketball stadium of the school was filled with the red hats of the “magician”, the chants of “USA” and “Distribution of country music” before the event began on Tuesday. Volunteers handed out posters, reading: “I am Charlie Kirk” and “in honor of Charlie Kirk, this is a turning point.”
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The participants said that they would come to pay tribute to Kirk along with the others whom he inspired and try to cure together.
“I feel that the tension is very high, especially in the same staff where it happened. But I'm very happy for this, ”said Jada Chilton from Salt -Loika -City. “This is just the healing of my soul that I actually get to the turning event, although it is not here.”
Chilton said that Kirka listened on TV, in the debate and on his podcast was her “daily regime.” She bought tickets for the event 30 minutes before the murder, which left her broken.
“I was sobbing on the floor,” she said.
She called safety on Tuesday as “crazy”, with officials on the roofs, drones above her head and police “everywhere”.
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“It makes you feel more comfortable, but, frankly, it is just sad and disappointed,” she said.
Michelle Khlavati from Logan, Utah, said that she had bought her ticket before the murder, and was supplied to see that the tour was ongoing. She listens to Kirka podcast daily since 2016.
“I like that Charlie had such an influence on so many people, and so many people came out of the tree and declared who they are religiously,” she said.
The widow says: “We have our marching orders”
The widow of Kirk, Erica Kirk, promised to continue the work of the organization. Now she is supervising the turning point and said that she would lead the group, because her late husband was planning, carefully following the plans that he set out to her and the staff.
“We will not give anywhere. We have drawings. We have our marching orders, ”she said last week on the podcast of Kirk, who, as she promised, will continue with the rotating owners and decades of the clips of her husband.
“My husband’s voice will live,” she said.
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