Right-wing blogger arrested at 'It's OK to be white' speech at UConn - News Summed Up

Right-wing blogger arrested at 'It's OK to be white' speech at UConn


(CNN) Lucian Wintrich, the White House correspondent for the right-wing Gateway Pundit website, was arrested Tuesday after a scuffle at the University of Connecticut. Wintrich, who is also the Washington bureau chief for the Trump-boosting blog, was at the Storrs, Connecticut, school to deliver his "It's OK to be white" speech. "It is sad that our fellow students at UConn have to take down or modify Lucian Wintrich's posters because they disagree with free speech and individualism. The protest of Wintrich's speech is the latest of several demonstrations against far-right speakers on college campuses this year. Officials at Texas A&M University changed its campus speaker policy over a planned speech by white supremacist Richard Spencer .


Source: CNN November 29, 2017 15:33 UTC



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