Free speech up for debate as people gather for Charlie Kirk vigil at Fresno State

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Close to 200 radical gathered connected the Fresno State field for a vigil for slain blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk.

Students were lighting candles and laying flowers for the laminitis of an enactment known for its sometimes-controversial viewpoints.

"I recovered him to beryllium a escaped thinker," Fresno State sophomore Dominic Duran said.

During his appearances connected assemblage campuses and universities, Kirk delivered remarks with immoderate calling his comments escaped speech, portion others described it arsenic hateful astatine times.

"A saying going astir is, 'He didn't person hatred speech, radical conscionable hated what helium said' and I deliberation that's precise true," Fresno State elder Julia Bizik said.

But erstwhile does escaped code transverse implicit into hatred speech?

"I really don't hold with the word 'Hate Speech' due to the fact that radical tin determination that subjective enactment connected hatred code whichever mode they want. What I don't hold with is erstwhile determination are calls for violence," California assemblyman David Tangipa said.

"I deliberation it crosses implicit into hatred code erstwhile it's harmful toward an individual, erstwhile it makes them consciousness unsafe and it makes them consciousness similar they're not worthy," Bizik said.

In the week since Kirk's murder, determination person been arsenic galore arsenic 3 educators successful the Central Valley disciplined oregon enactment connected permission for allegations of insensitive comments made successful beforehand of students.

The astir caller connected September 13, erstwhile a Fresno State lecturer was allegedly recorded making what the assemblage described arsenic "disturbing" comments successful the aftermath of Kirk's murder.

The adjacent day, Fresno State announced the lecturer had been placed connected leave.

On a nationalist scale, Attorney General Pam Bondi had these works to accidental regarding hatred code successful America.

"We volition perfectly people you, spell aft you if you are targeting anyone with hatred speech, anything, and that's crossed the aisle," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

She aboriginal clarified her comments aft receiving backlash implicit First Amendment rights concerns.

Bondi's connection reads, "My volition was to talk astir threats of unit that individuals incite against others? Freedom of code is ineffable successful our country, and we volition ne'er impede upon that right."

A akin vigil was scheduled astatine the College of the Sequoias field connected Thursday, but has since been cancelled for chartless reasons.

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