UC Davis and the 2022 Clash Over Kirk's Campus Visit

Showing 13 UC Davis videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

UC Davis became one of the most physically confrontational stops on Charlie Kirk's campus tour, drawing more than a hundred protesters who threw eggs, deployed pepper spray, and vandalized property outside the venue where Kirk was speaking, an event that required a heavy police presence and left broken windows in its wake. The visit produced a lasting media controversy after the Sacramento Bee published, and later deleted, a tweet falsely claiming Kirk had called for violence against transgender people, a characterization Kirk and Turning Point USA disputed as a mischaracterization of his actual comments on gender ideology. Kirk cited the UC Davis disruption repeatedly afterward as evidence of a broader pattern of coordinated left-wing intimidation on college campuses, a clip Senator Eric Schmitt later played during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on political violence to argue the event fit into a longer timeline of escalating attacks against conservative figures. Kirk discussed the visit's aftermath directly with Dennis Prager, framing the university chancellor's response as part of a broader institutional failure to enforce basic order and free speech protections on campus, while continuing to defend his right to appear at hostile venues rather than avoid them.