A courageous young woman at the University of North Texas (UNT) is speaking out after being mocked, harassed, and removed from class for defending the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk, just hours after his shocking assassination during a live campus debate.
Mary Catherine, a student at UNT, shared her powerful testimony on TikTok, describing the disturbing experience she endured in her quantitative methods class, where she says classmates not only celebrated Kirk’s death but cheered the brutal act as they passed around the assassination video.
She says the students even began wishing the same fate on President Donald Trump and other conservatives. When Mary Catherine dared to call out the grotesque display, she says the mob turned on her, ridiculing her and shouting her down.
What’s even more alarming, the professor, who had been silently observing the commotion, didn’t address the students laughing at a murder video. Instead, he approached Mary Catherine, told her to “take it outside,” and then laughed.
Mary Catherine later learned, while reporting the incident to university administrators, that Kirk had succumbed to his injuries. The realization hit her hard.
Despite going directly to the dean of students, Mary Catherine says she was told there was essentially nothing the administration could do. She was directed to the Department of Psychology, where she was again met with indifference.
When she finally met with the chair, she says she asked for one simple thing: to have the absence removed from her record, since she was forced out of class for her own safety and emotional well-being.
Despite feeling that “no one really cared,” Mary Catherine says she’s proud she stood up to the mob.
Transcript:
“The story begins at 3:20 today. I was headed to my quantitative methods class. I got there at 3:20. Class starts at 3:30. I like to get there a little bit early so I can get a front spot because this class is particularly hard. I’m sitting there, and all of this… there’s probably 115 students in this class. It’s a particularly big class.
I’m sitting there and I hear a girl go, “Did you all hear that Charlie Kirk got shot?” I had already known. I knew before I walked into that class. But I heard it and I was just like, “Interesting. Whatever.” Because I’m sitting there trying to do some work on my computer before class starts.
A girl says, “Oh, my gosh, who’s Charlie Kirk?” And she’s like, “Oh, my gosh, he’s just racist. He’s homophobic. He’s against abortions and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”
She’s just going off at this point. I’m just like, whatever. I don’t have the energy to intervene or the courage. Then she was like, “Do you all want to see the video of him getting shot?”
That’s when I was like, I turn around and I see her showing the video to some of the classmates, which I’ll do another video with the videos that I got. But she’s showing the video of him getting shot and everyone’s like, “Oh, my gosh.”
Right when it stopped, everyone starts clapping and cheering. They’re like, “Oh, my gosh, Charlie Kirk, he’s going to die. I can’t wait. Oh, my gosh, this is the best day ever.” They were like, “This needs to happen to Trump.” And they start saying other names.
This is when I stood up. She was like, “Yeah, and I’m pretty sure he has a family and two little girls. This is awesome. They’re going to grow up without a dad.” That’s when I turned around and I was like… I started videoing.
I said, “Okay, so we’re going to start wishing death upon people.” I was like, “No matter what your political beliefs are,” I was like, “This shouldn’t even be being brought up in this class.”
She just starts attacking me. She comes up and she starts getting in my face and she starts pointing. The whole class is just reaming me. I’m like, “It doesn’t matter.”
The fact is this should not be brought up in class. Then she was like, “So what about the white guy that shot up the Catholic Church?” I said, “Yeah, he was a transgender. He legally changed his name. I think it was a state of Minnesota. I don’t remember.”
But he was like, “Yeah, he’s a transgender.” She was, “Oh, so you’re going to bring that into it?” I was like, “No, that’s just a fact. You said that it was a white guy.” I was like, “Yeah, that was a transgender.”
I just was not having it. You’re not going to wish death upon someone that you don’t even know that has different political beliefs. That just breaks my heart.
Anyways, so the professor has been watching this happen, and he comes up to me, not to the other student, to me, and says, “You all should probably take this outside,” and then laughs.
I actually looked at him and I was just like, “wow.” I grabbed my bag, I walked out, went straight to the dean of students. Actually, I called my mom walking to the dean of students. I was just upset. I was so upset.
I can’t fathom how you think that it’s okay to sit in class and laugh and show videos of someone getting shot and laugh at it and then laugh about the fact that these kids are going to grow up without a dad.
Got to the dean of students, told him what was going on, and that’s when I heard the news that he actually died. I immediately started actually crying. I did. It hit me and I was like, “Wow, this sucks. Actually, this is terrible. This is so bad.”
He was just doing his thing out there in Utah or wherever. But the dean of students, whatever you wanted to call her, I don’t know. She was really nice. She was like, “We can’t do anything,” which I don’t know why.
But she was like, “You need to go to the head of the Department of Psychology.” I was like, “Okay.” I took my sticky note with his name on it, took my tissues, and I walked across campus bawling my eyes out. I made it to Hall. I went up to the third floor and I walked into the thing and there was no one sitting at the front desk, ringing the bell.
A lady comes out. Excuse me. A lady comes out and she’s like, “What can I do for you?” I don’t know. She just did not rub me the right way. I obviously was not in a good place. I was like, “I need to speak to the head of the department.”
She was like, “Can you give me a reason?” I was like, “The dean of students sent me, like, I’m not just here.” She looked at me and she was like, “Well, can you give me a reason?”
I was like, “Something happened in class.” I was like, “And I need to talk to the department, sure.” She was like, “I can go see what he can do.”
She walked in there and then she walked out and she was like, “He only has seven minutes, so you might want to hurry up.” Okay. I made it to the department chair, sat down, told him what’s going on.
He was basically like, “What do you want out of this?” I was like, “I want my absence taken off the record because I did not feel comfortable in that classroom, and I walked out.”
I’m not going to take an absence for something that wasn’t my fault because I was there for class. I was 10 minutes early. I was sitting front row, I was ready for class. This class is already hard enough as it is.
I need the extra points for attendance, and I don’t want this to be taken on my record. I don’t really know how this is going to be handled because I just feel like no one has really cared. I’m just at a loss for words at this point.
I don’t understand how that many students think it’s okay watching a video of someone getting shot and laughing and clapping and saying, “Oh my gosh, this is awesome.” I don’t understand.
But I can sleep at night knowing that I stood up and I did something and I said something instead of letting it just slide because that’s not okay.
I am waiting for an email from the professor and the department chair, and we’re going to go from there. But I genuinely don’t think that anything is going to be done other than my absence, if they even allow my absence to be taken off. So we shall see.
But that is my story, and I am very, very, very, very upset that Charlie passed away, and I am upset at what this has come to, to think that this is okay.”
Representative Andy Hopper, who serves Texas House District 64, said he has already contacted University of North Texas President Harrison Keller, Ph.D., about the situation.
BREAKING – A University of North Texas student is going viral for confronting classmates who were passing around a video of Charlie Kirk dying while laughing, and says the professor singled her out and asked her to leave class. pic.twitter.com/tNn9riEtrW
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