Texas State U. Student Expelled After Mocking Charlie Kirk’s Assassination by Acting it Out
“Although federal law prevents me or the university from commenting on individual student conduct manners, I can report that the individual is no longer a student at TXST.”
A student at Texas State University was expelled from the school yesterday, the same day he was caught on camera mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk by seemingly acting it out by grabbing his neck.
The student did this during an outdoor memorial campus event for Kirk. People were so outraged that they got word to Governor Greg Abbott, who demanded the student’s removal in a post on Twitter/X.
FOX News reports:
Student expelled after being caught on video acting out Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Texas State vigil
A Texas State University student was expelled on Tuesday after being caught on video acting out conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination during an on-campus memorial event hosted by a local Turning Point USA chapter.
The video, filmed on the university’s San Marcos campus Monday, appeared to show the male student with a backpack cursing at the crowd, hitting his neck and pretending he was shot.
The man then stood up in front of a statue, said “Hi, my name is Charlie Kirk” and acted out the assassination, falling to the ground, further mocking the death of the 31-year-old father of two.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for the student’s expulsion in an X post.
“Hey Texas State. This conduct is not accepted at our schools,” Abbott wrote. “Expel this student immediately. Mocking assassination must have consequences.”
Texas State President Kelly Damphousse later confirmed the student in the video was identified.
“I will not tolerate behavior that mocks, trivializes, or promotes violence on our campuses,” Damphousse wrote in a statement. “It is antithetical to our TXST values. The individual is no longer a student at TXST.”
Here’s a video of the incident:
JUST IN: Texas State University expels student who was seen on camera mocking the death of Charlie Kirk.
In a letter to the TXST community, President Kelly Damphousse said the following:
"As you may be aware, a video surfaced this morning of reprehensible behavior that took… pic.twitter.com/yT9MzYm7Bc
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 16, 2025
This all unfolded very quickly.
Statement from President Damphousse: pic.twitter.com/c2am9FjHaa
— Texas State University (@txst) September 16, 2025
Hey Texas State.
This conduct is not accepted at our schools.
Expel this student immediately.
Mocking assassination must have consequences. https://t.co/lR0ovIDLBL
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) September 16, 2025
Update: Late this afternoon, we confirmed that the individual in the reprehensible video was a TXST student.
While federal law prevents @txst from commenting on individual student conduct matters, I can say that the person is no longer a student at Texas State. pic.twitter.com/12VhFFGavx
— 𝙺𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝙳𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚜𝚎 (@kdamp) September 16, 2025
This is the text in that tweet, via the school website:
Dear Bobcat Family:
As you may be aware, a video surfaced this morning of reprehensible behavior that took place during an event on the San Marcos Campus Monday. This afternoon, university officials identified the individual in the video as a TXST student. Although federal law prevents me or the university from commenting on individual student conduct manners, I can report that the individual is no longer a student at TXST.
I am writing this separate email to you because I know that this incident (and the response to it) has shaken the Texas State community (including faculty, staff, students, alumni, community members, and supporters). The video understandably evoked strong emotions here and across the country.
Unfortunately, some people are suggesting that the individual’s actions represent the beliefs of TXST students in general or those of specific student organizations. These kinds of insinuations are unfair to our student body, and they cause some of our students to feel unsafe. Just as the behavior in the video was reprehensible, attempts to spread the blame onto innocent students are also unacceptable. The actions of one person do not reflect our entire community or the individuals in it.
Featured image via Twitter/X video.
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He has a future in Hollywood maybe or a DNC activist.
Nah, he’ll be a punk @ss bit*h gimp on a cell block by the time he’s 21
For the Drama Department, a tragic loss of their next Othello.
Or perhaps Snow White.
Monkey see, monkey do.
It’s so typical of your stupidity that you can’t come up with a way to criticize this idiot, without making a bigoted reference towards his race, which is totally irrelevant, given that innumerable white Dhimmi-crats have been cheering on Kirk’s murder.
You really are just a total piece of excrement; your posts are an embarrassment. Your intellect is that of a toddler.
Don’t go the long way around the barn. Tell us what you really think.
Hey, this is a big moment in US History: the FAFO of a Protected Class.
Not to mention, without 16 years worth of Due Process.
Funny, it took me a moment to realize what you were talking about.
See what you want to see, I suppose.
I’m surprised you would openly admit that when someone says the word “monkey”, you immediately believe it to be about race.
From my perspective, it says A LOT more about you than E Howard Hunt.
I don’t know how to insert a ‘cringe’ emoji, so please just imagine one is here.
What’s his name?
Yeah, he needs to be named publicly
get his name out there as we pray for peace
he will probably win the upcoming lawsuit as the fear of the usual reaction of the left will be noted
Nope, that won’t play in the Texas Hill Country where that campus is located
Remember: Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences of your speech. And if an institution doesn’t want anything to do with you after you really made an ass of yourself in public, well you only have yourself to blame.
Good.
Hunt them down with impunity. EXPEL or FIRE THEM ALL. Deprive them of livelihood. Make them suffer. This cultural sadism that cheers the murder of another WILL NOT be tolerated anymore than white sheet crossburning in a black person’s yard, or a pervert stalking children to molest. You will be punished for your sadism; black listed; cast out from polite society.
Although I pretty much agree with you, we REALLY NEED to be careful about tramping on 1sr Amendment protection. Remember the past 10 years…. Obama/Biden…
We do.
So let’s look at the situation.
People are saying that if you use your right to free speech and someone doesn’t like it, it’s okay for them to shoot you.
They’re saying ‘kill people who use free speech’.
So how do we defend against that without trampling their right to call for murdering people who exercise free speech?
Waitaminit– you don’t HAVE a right to execute or call for the execution of people using their right to free speech. No one does.
So what do we do?
We use our freedom of association (also protected by the first amendment) and our free speech to let everyone know what they want and to suggest ostracizing them.
Because the best way to defend free speech is to get rid of the people who want to kill anyone who uses it.
And yet no riot, no one tried to burn down the school. We are not the same. The fatigue continues.
Where were the men to stand him down?
noting that it wasnt worth prison to stop the pos
The culture and society has greatly shifted to demand jail time for what you seem to ask. It is a reflection of the shift in cultural mores introduced by feminism to restrain, mock and punish masculinity in general and masculine violence in particular. The exception seems to be masculinity including violent masculinity being acceptable only when performed in the service of women and the instances these feminist women unilaterally determine as worthy….as you do here.
Step outside of those narrow lines and the lefty DA, lefty Judge (both elected with a majority female vote) will see a man at best spending thousands on a legal defense for the crime he gets charged with, potentially more on hospital bills, more $ to defend the civil suit. Best case he’s out of pocket tens of thousands of dollars and his life turned upside down and worse case add on a conviction, prison time plus financial ruin, not just for himself but for his own wife/children.
Mocking the victim – or the mourners – at a memorial service is -yes- reprehensible behavior. Reminds me of that one Incest Church Cult (all the preacher’s parishioners are family members) who love to crash funerals and hijack them for publicity.
But this particular “useful idiot” didn’t go so far as to assault mourners or to vandalize memorial offerings and paraphernalia.
So….. yes, some form of consequences was appropriate.
Not (imho) perhaps a physical takedown – but expulsion for showing lack of common courtesy and respect for fellow students seems right.
Also – dox him – so future employers and folks in general will know what a POS this particular POC is.
But he still has a future on late nite TV.
There would have been a riot at any school where someone mocked the death of St. George, and the student would have been beaten to within an inch of his life. His expulsion would not have been necessary as the student would have had to quit the school for his own safety.
exactly
blmplo doesnt need to worry about prison
even if they were to spend minutes there
its a badge of honor for them and a ticket to the dnc party
Or even better, “Hi, my name is Muhammad.”
Scratch that, probably 5% of students are actually named that.
Oh please, people. Nothing to see here. You know what’s gonna happen now. This black dude is going to file a lawsuit in court alleging First Amendment violations and RAYCISM!! and demand re-instatement to Texas State University and monetary damages. And some White liberal judge will rule in his favor and immediately issue an order to do so. Guaranteed.
First let me state very clearly, the students actions were vile and extremely bad taste.
That being said, 1A provides tremendous protection, no matter how vile the speech may be. I dont know the specific details involved, but he likely has a strong 1a cause of action.
Before commenting – please read my first sentence.
Not sure that the 1A guarantees enrollment at this school, though. He is not being prevented from speaking his opinions, just not being allowed to continue the privilege of being at this school.
He’s not being accused of a crime.
He’s being accused of the equivalent of violating a morals or honor clause.
Something allowed at even purely federal educational institutions, like the military academies.
He’ll be a commentator on MSNBC in 5, 4, 3, 2, …
I’m pleasantly surprised that TXST showed some backbone here. I graduated back when the school was known as SWTSU and I stopped alumni donations a few years ago when they decided to hire Puto O’Toole, that pathetic moron and perennial loser who is constantly threatening to infringe upon my God-given rights, as an adjunct professor. They’ve taken a small step towards rehabilitating their reputation here.
the police will only get involved when the maga people start bringing actual bodyguards that weed out troublemakers
b/c THAT poses the bigger threat to the pd
It strikes me that any company considering hiring anyone who graduated say from 5 years ago forward needs to do a serious background check on them to see if they have done something like this or worse. If you hire them, if they act out again it will be on you.
Subotai Bahadur
Impiety is necessary. The right is wrong here.
He is not being prevented from saying and acting out his vile thoughts. He is as free as you are to be disgusting and deranged.
Just not while enjoying the privilege of being a student at this school.
He may have thought that the whole thing was mass hysteria. I do.
Then he should have just kept his mouth shut, like you should.
The thing is a lucky soap opera break for the right gone viral. The more pious people act towards Kirk memorializing the more nervous the left’s outlets become and the more they start cancelling leftists. Cancel culture in reverse.
It is, however, complete crap. The left is complete crap for the usual reasons, but the right has taken it up as evidence of their righteousness. Virtue signalling gone universal.
Virtue gone public is the chief source of evil in the world. Germany was filled with decency, family values and love of country. Virtue gone public.
There’s no impiety permitted so nobody has courage courage to say wait a minute this is crazy. Or some do, and those messengers are traditionally shot.
Look at the stuff here. “Dox the guy.” A call for right wing violence, I’d say. By somebody else, of course.
Robert Wright and Glenn Loury on the assassination. Wright is a TDS guy and so annoying to listen to, and Loury is against affirmative action but still a leftist at heart, so neither one is going to give insights that you’d want to use.
The do however play a clip of Kirk being downright mean, which struck me as hardly the nice guy that Kirk was reported to be. I mean, it’s easy to be polite and use disagreement as an opportunity to restate or reframe what has been ill understood, but Kirk was downright ugly. You have to respect those specific DEI hires even as you say they’re not qualified. It’s not a moral failing on their part.
So, in short, I’m a much nicer guy that Kirk was, going by that clip. Otherwise it sounds like I’d agree with Kirk mostly. Except apparently that he leads with God, and that’s backwards. God follows morality.
left off Loury clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mIqpJlMlL8
“but the right has taken it up as evidence of their righteousness.”
No, the right has taken it up in order to enforce the left’s on rules against them.
Not righteous, but infinitely just.
“left off Loury clip”
I’m not going to watch 51 minutes of Statler and Waldorf. Scrubbed through the entire video slowly and saw nothing recognizable as a clip of anybody but those two talking heads. Surely you can do better. Timestamp?
Good point, link with time (or click on More for a catalog)
https://youtu.be/4mIqpJlMlL8?t=1465
Kirk disrespected four named frauds who not only deserve no respect, but have never given us any. He criticizes these woman, not for being black, but for being (admitted) DEI hires (the vast majority of whom are black and/or women, so the fact that these four women were black falls out of the math).
Following which, the two snowflakes on camera clutched their pearls about how awful it was for Charlie to tell the truth about that.
I find all of that acceptable.
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/09/fact-check-kirk-said-four-specific-black-women-lacked-brain-processing-power.html
I agree with Kirk but he’s after making them feel bad rather than their bosses. Think of how much better off we’d be if more astute people had been chosen etc.
Their worthlessness shouldn’t be shoved in the worthless’s face. They just haven’t found their perfect job yet. Offer some tips for finding it, with a helpful attitude.
Satisfaction is found in doing something for somebody else, especially through a job that you find you fit. Offer that.
Unfortunately that man is tragically the tip of the iceberg and far from an outlier.
Like it or not the only source of new scientists, doctors, lawyers, engineers, and architects is via colleges or immigration.
College students celebrating or supporting the death of Charlie Kirk is a big deal.
and he and his fellow affirmaction will be those
engineers lawyers scientists showing us how to build bridges out of straw
I don’t think his behavior was enough to warrant expulsion. He was being a stupid kid acting out for attention. Very poor taste but most if not all of us have made stupid comments when young. I still do at times
I agree. This is starting to feel like a version of cancel culture. After all, Charlie believed in Freedom of Speech. I’m not sure that expelling this student is a good way to honor his memory.
it is cancel culture and they wont stop until they are shown the door ala blmplo hezzies
Yes, we all feel dirty, to use the enemy’s own dirty weapons again them.
Just like any other war.
That’s why war is hell.
Who sets the bar? We or they? Shouldn’t we hold ourselves to a higher standard?
The student was in a crowd. He’s not a media pundit. He has no bully pulpit. He didn’t post it on X. He did a thoughtless, even vile, action, yes. But for that behavior he deserves to have his college career destroyed? I like Greg Abbot, but I don’t think he should have demanded the student’s expulsion.
We cannot oppress the voices we disagree with! If we do, then we become them.
“Shouldn’t we hold ourselves to a higher standard?”
We have been. We’ve been having our asses handed to us.
The rules have changed, and the left has already set them.
I agree. He wasn’t doing anything illegal like graffiti or occupation of a building. He probably had no idea who Kirk was just that he was getting attention. I don’t think we should go overboard with bad behavior or stupid statements
Bad ideas like cancel culture start on the left and then get adopted on the right. Soon no one will remember that one could voice unpopular opinions with very little fear of losing one’s job.
In this case he is a student at a government-funded university so he has first amendment protection.
It appears that hundreds, and maybe thousands, of people have been expelled or fired for their own actions.
There will be litigation.
The standards for being expelled will be shown in the school’s code of conduct.
Firing standards will vary based upon the facts.
In most cases, employees can be fired for any reason or no reason at all.
Eventually, we will find out what the courts decide.
He’s an adult and I imagine the existing policies are written broadly enough to make the expulsion stick. If he lacks the basic judgment to refrain from mocking the deceased at a memorial service I’d argue he lacks the emotional and psychological maturity to be in university. Seems like a healthy guy and a term in the Army or USMC would do wonders for his maturation plus finance his future education.
I’m sure your right but unless this adult had prior problems at the University wouldn’t a better course of action be to call him into the Dean’s office, point out the code of conduct and tell him a second event like that appalling behavior would get him thrown out? In essence “grow the hell up”
IMO, no. It wasn’t a small lapse in judgement. This was a performative display, especially the second part where after engaging in mockery once from ground level in the crowd he then climbed up onto the fountain and role played the assassination.
His actions to devalue human life, the simple existence of those whom he disagrees with, discredit the University. They undermine the role of the academic; open minded, honest exchange of ideas in pursuit of knowledge/truth. He doesn’t deserve another bite of the apple.
except that we are in a war and standing on principle is great when dealing with principled people
Should all the surrounding people laughing at his antics be expelled?
Looking at the video, the other people around him thought it was hilarious.
It’s hard to tell really what is going through someone’s mind in a situation like that. That jackal-faced ‘smile’ could very well be a nervous reaction to being so close to something/someone so vile.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02PS77MUmrrEBG6Cnt9nAaZfTFRZFyw5PxJV9LZ5wHZbR6nmp7L6J6AzwRZbYRaWPwl&id=100064866575282
And seeing things you don’t want to see.
Free speech means you can’t be prosecuted for what you say,
It doesn’t mean you are exempt from social consequences.
It’s not “cancel culture,” it’s “accountability culture.”
Don’t think you can argue with us, the left already provided us the “authorized” answer key.
We did see what we didn’t want to, which was the student did.
That was his moment of free speech. The rest is epilogue.
“The man then stood up in front of a statue, said “Hi, my name is Charlie Kirk” and acted out the assassination, falling to the ground”
I saw this on The Orville. I think the penalty was lobotomy.
I have to say, I am gratified by the number of commenters we’ve never seen before showing up at this time to tell us what our principles demand we do.
Good to know that a paying customer can be thrown out of an establishment because management doesn’t like his nondisruptive but distasteful behavior.
“Teaching how to think, not what to think. “
No soup for you, proggie.
Free Speech Absolutists. This is the price of free speech. And TXST just signed up to pay a large price.
We’ll see.
Back when I was going to school, you could be expelled just for getting caught smoking in the bathroom twice.
Has he started whining “rayciss” yet?