Overview
- Landry challenged the LSU Board of Supervisors to place a Charlie Kirk statue on campus, pitching it as a defense of free speech and urging LSU to be the first university to do so.
- The call followed Landry’s appearance at a Turning Point USA event in Baton Rouge that organizers and reports said drew roughly 1,500 to 1,600 attendees.
- LSU women’s basketball standout Flau’jae Johnson questioned the proposal on X and later urged followers who support Kirk’s rhetoric to unfollow her, after limiting replies to her post.
- Academics publicly objected, including LSU professor emeritus Robert Mann, who condemned honoring Kirk; other Louisiana faculty voiced concerns about TPUSA’s targeting of professors.
- No college has a Kirk statue to date, with separate calls for a U.S. Capitol monument circulating, and the Utah case continues with suspect Tyler Robinson charged in Kirk’s September killing at Utah Valley University.