Texas brewery pulls out as venue for Kyle Rittenhouse rally

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A Conroe brewery said Friday that it has canceled an upcoming “Rally Against Censorship” that includes Kyle Rittenhouse, who was famously acquitted of fatally capturing two folks in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020.

On Twitter, Southern Star Brewery, which had been listed as the occasion host stated it “is an apolitical organization, but we feel that this event doesn’t reflect our own values and we could not in good faith continue to rent out space for the event. … We don’t do rallies, we make beer for people who like beer.”

The Jan. 26 occasion was additionally set to incorporate a frontrunner of TEXIT, a bunch that advocates for Texas to secede from the United States. The occasion organizer is Defiance Press, a Conroe-based writer behind titles together with “Corona-fascism” and a biography of Joe Arpraio, the previous Maricopa County, Arizona, sheriff who refused a decide’s order to cease racial profiling by his division.

Defiance Press describes itself as “active in the fight against censorship through publishing conservative books which have been widely censored from mainstream media” and has additionally revealed supplies that help Texas leaving the United States.

Rittenhouse has more and more centered on anti-media and “anti-censorship” crusades since being discovered not responsible of murder and different fees in 2021. The cancellation by Southern Star — which follows a number of days of backlash — is simply the newest controversy involving Rittenhouse to happen in Texas.

An occasion spokesperson confirmed the cancellation and stated it was “definitely” getting rescheduled elsewhere.

Last 12 months, Rittenhouse introduced his plans to attend Texas A&M University, a declare he walked again after the college stated he had not been accepted. Rittenhouse, an Illinois native, later stated he plans to attend Blinn College, a two-year faculty in Brenham.

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