Conservative activist Kaitlin Bennett, also known as “Gun Girl,” incited large-scale student protests Monday when she appeared on Ohio University’s Athens campus to film a video.
Bennett had arrived on campus to film a President’s Day trivia video for the Liberty Hangout, which bills itself as a libertarian media outlet, according to both her and the site. Bennett has been a divisive figure since gaining notoriety in 2018 for posting controversial graduation photos of herself with an AR-10 rifle at Kent State University.
She told NBC News in a statement Tuesday that she planned on walking around campus asking students trivia questions such as “Who were the first three presidents?” before she was interrupted.
“I was only able to ask one student before a mob formed around my friend Joel Patrick and I,” Bennett told NBC News. “They began throwing objects at my face and shoving us as we tried to get out of the crowd.”
About 400 students gathered to see Bennett at the Baker Center on campus, where she was met with chants of “go home,” according to the university’s student newspaper, The Post.
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