The FBI is investigating death threats against the president of the University of Alabama’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter, Trenton Buffenbarger, following a "Change my Mind" tabling event.
Buffenbarger and fellow YAF members were hosting a “Deport Every Illegal: Change My Mind” event, which was inspired by Peter Schweizer’s #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. This was the second "Change My Mind," conversation-style event the group hosted. The first one was related to Second Amendment rights.
As first reported by Breitbart News, Buffenbarger was engaging in conversations with fellow students in a space the group was permitted to use when, at different points in the event, protesters and agitators interrupted.
One of those interruptions included a female student being detained by University of Alabama Police Department (UAPD) “because she walked up to our table, grabbed a bunch of stuff, and threw it away.” Buffenbarger told 1819 News that he declined to press charges against the student but said the university is pursuing possible Code of Conduct violations.
At least two different protesters came to the table to record the event.
One, a student, Buffenbarger said, is known to be routinely disruptive on campus, appears in his own video directing a group of white men, whom he says "look like frat guys," to walk up to the table and address the black student engaged in a conversation, “Happy Black History Month.” He then says, "f*ck what they're talking about," deciding to do it himself. During a brief exchange after interrupting the conversation, he refers to Buffenbarger as the n-word.
It was this video that Buffenbarger believes resulted in the multiple threats against him.
Breitbart reported that Buffenbarger "was also warned by the school of an unidentified man who drove to campus, got out of his car, and began aggressively 'asking for us by name,' which caused two students — who did not know any of the YAF members — to become concerned and call campus police."
The man who drove to campus without a license plate was later identified. On Friday morning, campus police told Buffenbarger that he was not a student and issued a trespass warning prohibiting him from returning to the school grounds.
The threats, as reported by Breitbart, included, “If i catch u on my campus im putting a hot one through u like they did ya boy,” one Instagram user threatened in a comment on one of the YAF chapter leader’s recent posts, in an apparent reference to Kirk’s assassination.
“Hope they do u worse then they did Kirk,” another user wrote.
“we gonna do you the kirk special,” another Instagram user threatened in the comment section.
“hope you meet the same fate as the kirky,” another user said.
One Instagram user called on the public to “point a gun at his head,” while another commenter wrote, “I hope you end up like that other guy.”
“If bro keeps spreading hateful rhetoric he’s gonna get karmically kirked,” another user said.
“Charlie Kirk. does that change your mind,” another Instagram user said.
In private messages, one Instagram user wrote, “i’m gonna do you just like charlie :)” adding, “sleep well my sweet prince <3”
“yoo ahh not charlie kirk lil n*gga cam down before you end up like him,” another user scribed in a private message, adding five crying-laughing emojis.
Buffenbarger said that the threats will not keep him or his group from hosting a third tabling session next week.
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