Oklahoma State YAF students press charges after heated confrontation

Student leaders from Young America’s Foundation (YAF) at Oklahoma State University They speak out after heated confrontations that left their table shattered over four interactions in one day by the same person. Fox News Digital spoke with Yemen Armed Forces Chairman Thomas Hatfield and Vice Chairman Caleb Buxton about the incident. University response And what they hope to see from school officials moving forward.

The students explained what happened, why they believe it is “dangerous” for leftists to freely describe conservatives as “fascists” and why they believe leftists have been “brainwashed”.

The YAF chapter was holding a table in support of traditional marriage last week and hoped to have a fruitful discussion. They said they first saw someone approaching them from an anti-Israel table nearby and looking angry.

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“When they got to the curb, they pushed all the people who were there talking to us and started grabbing all our posters and pins and everything that was on the table. We started recording, and I followed the person about 50 yards to the nearest trash can, where they got rid of all our posters and stuff,” Buxton said.

After this first incident, they didn’t think the person would come back, but they soon realized that wasn’t the case.

“They came back a second time, and this time they were walking about three or four hundred yards from the table. As I followed them, I was able to have some discussion with him, but it always came down to: ‘You’re a fascist, and I don’t steal because it’s not worth a lot of money.’ “They’re just stickers. They threw our stickers out on the sidewalk, and while I was having that discussion with him, five or six college students were nice enough to start picking up the stickers.”

They came back two more times after the second incident.

“After about 15 minutes of that, that person came back again for the third time, walked away again, threw the posters, and this time it ended up being about a 20-minute conversation with this person, where they called me a fascist 16 times in that session and justified everything they were doing because I was a fascist, saying that fascists have no rights, they have no reason to be there, and their opinions aren’t worth anything.”

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Buxton shared why he finds using the term fascist “dangerous.”

“I think this shows how the left, which always pushes fascist rhetoric, has actually brainwashed a lot of its followers into thinking that anyone on the right is a fascist, they don’t have any rights, so I can do whatever I want to them because they’re evil people and I think This is really dangerous“.

Buxton said that if supporting Trump makes him a “fascist,” that would apply to more than half of Americans, which he said he does not believe is true.

“Then, the individual came back to our table a fourth time, grabbed our posters again, and threw them again, and that’s where the viral clip came from, taken from one of the other people at the table… and that conversation ended very briefly and the person walked out. That was the end of the discussions with the individual,” Buxton said. “Then the police came shortly after, and we spoke with them for a while, and we are currently filing charges against this person.”

The students are seeking charges and hope to see further disciplinary action from the school.

“We will continue to press until justice is done to us and to all people who have been subjected to free speech incidents on campus because we want to send the message that this is not acceptable and will not stand,” Hatfield said.

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The Oklahoma State Library on the campus of Oklahoma State University on October 1, 2005, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. (Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)

“If this happened to a left-wing club on campus, there would be all kinds of emails — do you need mental training or anything like that or therapy. So we don’t have any kind of communication like that,” Buxton said.

Regardless, YAF at OSU plans to keep moving forward.

“We will continue to work hard to advance the social issues we have always worked on,” Buxton said. “We’re going to have to keep the pressure on them and never back down no matter what happens. I think if you back down in times of trouble, it won’t help anyone.”

Hatfield also encourages the school to sign the contract put forward by the YAF.

“We would also like, formally, as Young Americans for Freedom at Oklahoma State University, to call on the state of Oklahoma to sign the Hold a safe campus He said, “The dialogue, as proposed by the Young America Foundation and the Chairman of the Young America Foundation, Governor Scott Walker.”

“We call on Oklahoma State University to sign this contract and this charter to ensure that all students, regardless of which side they stand on politically or socially, may have a place to speak at Oklahoma State University and to ensure that an incident like this never happens again,” Hatfield continued.

He added, “We ask Oklahoma State University not to sign this on our part, but we ask them to sign it as a commitment and issue our statements and many statements to enact policies, and commit to promoting an environment in which everyone’s First Amendment rights are respected.”

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Oklahoma State University commented on the viral post, saying: “Oklahoma State University supports freedom of expression. The Oklahoma State University Police Department is actively investigating this incident.”

In a comment made to Fox News Digital on Friday, OSU wrote: “OKSU supports the rights of student groups to express their opinions and speak freely. The OSU Police Department investigated the incident, and charges remain pending.”

Fox News Digital I also reached out to OSU after the interview with Hatfield and Buxton and got the same response: “OKSU supports the rights of student groups to express their opinions and speak freely.”

The statement added: “The Ohio State University Police Department immediately investigated the incident, and charges remain pending. Additionally, while federal law prohibits the university from sharing information about specific students, we can announce that our Student Conduct Team is involved in this matter and will address any violations of our Code of Student Conduct.”

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Fox News’ Nicholas Lanum and Alba Cuevas-Fantauzzi contributed to this report.