Footage from a 2020 confrontation between Kaitlin Bennett, the widely disliked far-right extremist who gained national attention for constantly stirring up trouble and division, and a police officer is going viral again as we gear up for another summer of LGBTQ Pride.
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Bennett, still colloquially referred to as ‘Gun Girl,’ was apparently bothering attendees at an Iowa Pride event last summer, to the point that multiple complaints were made to cops hanging out in the area.
One officer approached Bennett and her crew, who were filming for InfoWars, to suggest she leave people alone.
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“You clearly don’t like what they’re up to,” he said.
“I don’t care what they’re up to!” Bennett screeched in response.
The officer tried to disengage with her but she wouldn’t let him go, as she apparently wasn’t pleased with the possibility that people could continue to file complaints about her if she kept bothering them.
Instead, Bennett insisted he needed to “uphold the first amendment and the truth,” whatever she thinks that means.
It seems she tried to offer up a retaliatory complaint of some sort, but wouldn’t let the officer take the group’s camera into evidence for the footage to be reviewed. So because he didn’t simply take her word over multiple other complaints about her behavior, she felt targeted somehow.
“Everything is investigated individually,” he explained to her, understandably losing patience.
At different points, Gun Girl also tried to use the fact that her audience supposedly supports law enforcement and her own claim of supporting them to her benefit. Unfortunately for her, the cop didn’t bite and continued telling her the same thing he had been the entire time —that he wasn’t arresting her, he wasn’t removing her from the scene, but he didn’t want to hear any further complaints about her.
“I would say this seems like a bad idea in here, but that’s just me,” he said. “You’re free to do whatever you’d like.”
“But I will have consequences if I go in there and engage in free speech,” Bennett replied, so very close to actually getting it and yet so far.
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“The interesting thing about being an adult in the world is every choice has consequences,” the officer spelled it out for her.
Comments on the video this year aren’t any kinder to Bennett than they were the first time it went viral.
“She is just so damn rude and foul,” u/Positive_War_2930 wrote after viewing the video twice. “What a f—king coward.”
“So…is she saying she wants police protection so she can go into a Pride march and insult everyone?” u/faithle55 asked.
An extended version of the interaction between Bennett and the officer is even more ridiculous, with the conversation ultimately coming to an end after she tries to get him to take her side by calling him disrespectful while again painting herself as “supportive” and claiming “a lot of people here hate you because you’re a cop.”
“I don’t care what anyone thinks about me,” he says.
*First Published: June 8, 2021, 7:57 am
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