Antifa Mob Gathers Outside TPUSA Event, Violence and Arrests Quickly Unfold

SAN ANTONIO—A violent Antifa protest erupted outside the Turning Point Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. After protesters attempted, but failed, to storm into the event through a police blockade, the violence escalated.

One man, who had been pepper-sprayed for storming police, was seen washing his eyes with water from a plastic bottle. He immediately threw the bottle at a nearby police officer and ran. The protester was caught. Though he resisted arrest, he was thrown to the ground and taken away.

A woman then attacked an arresting police officer with her wooden 6-foot-tall flagpole and took off, seeming to evade arrest. Police told the Daily Signal they could not immediately comment on either protester’s arrest or charges.

Some, part of the mob, were seen wearing Antifa imagery and could be heard chanting slurs and threats to attendees.

Some chants included “Erika Kirk go to hell—it is right to rebel,” “Listen Kirk, hear us scream, f**k your Nazi regime,” “Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make these people hate us. Make sure they know you hate them,” and even, “Charlie Kirk deserved to die.”

The Daily Signal interviewed a protester dressed up as the late Charlie Kirk, founder of TPUSA. He wore a handmade paper-mache mask made to look like Kirk and a hand-drawn white “Freedom” T-shirt, just as Kirk wore the day he was murdered last September. When asked what his mask meant, he imitated Kirk, danced inappropriately, and later fell to the ground mocking Kirk’s murder.

One protester told the Daily Signal that she was there with a group of friends because they have “been to some other protests before.” She claimed they were there protesting Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow and new CEO of TPUSA. When the Daily Signal asked why the protester thought Kirk was a threat, the young woman refused to answer and walked away.

Attendees, who were escorted and protected by TPUSA security, prayed over the protesters.

While these violent protesters were kept out of the hotel where the event was taking place, one undercover protester managed to get into the event as a paid attendee the day before. During Kirk’s opening remarks, the protester interrupted the programming to scream, “Erika Kirk protects pedophiles.” She was immediately removed by undercover security and San Antonio police who were on site.

Since Kirk’s murder, TPUSA has been a punching bag for leftist violence and death threats. Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show” and a TPUSA spokesperson, told the Daily Signal they have had to implement “a lot of new protocols,” but their mission hasn’t changed.

“I go back to this very fundamental point: You cannot give the assassins veto credence, you have to push forward, doesn’t mean you be stupid, sometimes you got to change your tactics, but we cannot allow that to really rob our country from us and rob conservatives specifically,” he continued.

“The Left is getting more violent… There was a YouGov economist poll that came out just a couple days after Charlie’s assassination, and it confirmed that nearly a third of 18- to 39-year-old self-described progressives believe that political violence is okay to achieve political ends,” Kolvet said.

Kolvet said he believes this is because of rhetoric, propaganda, lack of morals, and a lack of belief in God.

Just a few hours after speaking with Kolvet about the safety and security at the event, the female protester erupted with her chants.