UNLAWFUL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL Campus Security - Kentucky State University (Kerrigan Skelly)

[supermarioworld04]

i am an avid anime cosplayer and today the campus security at my community college yelled at me for being in cosplay adn the told me to leave. I feel that they trampled on my personal rights. :(

[skellys3]

@Mirewood America is NOT CANADA!!

[skellys3]

@Mirewood Oh, one more thing...we weren't "protesting" and we're not a "club". We are American Citizens who came to a Public University to engage in Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech. To impose "policies" or "restrictions" upon us because of this is prejudice...

[skellys3]

@Mirewood Their "policies" don't matter much to me, especially when they are unconstitutional and infringe upon my God-given and Constitution-given rights. No offense, but your opinion also doesn't matter to me. What matters is the truth. It really is that simple. And the truth is that this University was unlawful and unconstitutional in the way they handled this matter...

[skellys3]

@Mirewood "I was under the impression that there are only certain areas you can protest on a campus so that your not disrupting classes, blocking entrances, etc."

This is true, but they can't put you in a place where there is no one to preach to, like the practice football field.

No one was being "harassed" and "feelings" don't matter when it comes to constitutional law. They are paying for classes at the price they are, because it is a public campus...

[TheMasterTelevision]

Question: If I am correct, don't security have the right to throw anyone off campus for any reason? Its not public property as I am aware.

[skellys3]

@TheMasterTelevision No, you are wrong. State campuses (ones that aren't private) are open to the public. You can't throw anyone off for just any reason...

[TheMasterTelevision]

@skellys3 ah, ok, my mistake, I thought it was a private campus or something.

[skellys3]

@TheMasterTelevision No problem...

[Quione89]

wow really....instead of beating around the bush with your comments, why don't you say whats really on your mind. Im not scared to say that you know what your real intentions were and I thought your god didn't like ugly. 1 your stating trouble, your talk to a group of student who for generations couldn't even read from the same bible as you do. 2 your on a hbcu, so your little comment about Dr. King in despicable......I hope god forgives you for your ignorance.

[skellys3]

@Quione89 What are you talking about? You are either severely confused or you are making false judgments based upon assumptions. Either way you are wrong. I pray that God forgives your unrighteous judgments and assumptions...

[zepeterinma]

Skelly, i love you, your the best!



[skellys3]

@zepeterinma Well, I don't know about that, but thanks!

[zepeterinma]

@skellys3 no homo, lol.

[IeuanMorgannwg]

In the first encounter with the Sergeant I think I heard the Sgt. state that the University was private property. If that is the case you do not have the right to do or say what you please. It would be the same as if you were on someone's front lawn; it doesn't belong to you, and you are a guest. If you behave in a manner that the owner dislikes they have every right to ask you to leave.

[skellys3]

@IeuanMorgannwg It matters not what the Sgt. said. What matters is the truth, the facts. The truth is that this University is not private property. It is public property. State and federal tax dollars are used to support this institution. Therefore, they have no right to stop my freedom of speech and ask me to leave when I've done nothing wrong...

[IeuanMorgannwg]

Notice I did say "If that is the case" - since it is public property of course you have the right to speak, anyone does. Regardless of how obnoxious they are.

[valegorn]

So whats the status on this? Where you guys allowed back on campus? Was this taken care of. I hate to see things like this go bad when you guys are so obviously in the right.

I may not completely agree with everything you guys say, but I STRONGLY believe you do have the right to religion and speech and those guards had no right to do what they did.

[skellys3]

@valegorn Right now, we have some other cases going on in this district of the U.S. that will have an obvious impact on this situation with this University. So, we have not pursued anything with this specific University. It would have just of been redundant...

[Lengarces]

It angers me to see how our liberties are being eroded and how God's message is so hated and suppressed. May God bless you for doing his work.

[jesus7es7dios7]

What bothers me is that if it was Michael Jackson making a speech in front of the campus, all (or most) of these students would be melting down for him.... However, when it comes to the word of God, they get so offended... They only want to hear what they want to her, but not the truth.

[skellys3]

@jesus7es7dios7 Very true...

[jesus7es7dios7]

Those students are representative of today's society, and to think these are actual college (university) students... Unbelieveable...

[waluum]

The officer was very unsure of himself, pulling any objective reasons he could find out of the air to defend his position, as evidenced by the turn it eventually took when he refused to restate his reason after you proposed an adequate solution (he said it was causing a disturbance, you said you would step down for some time and talk to people one-on-one while the crowd calmed and dispersed). The officer clearly had a problem with what you were saying, whether he knew it or not.

[mrdreamers4u]

If Martin Luther King JR. was still alive and was there he would have told those kids how ashamed they should be for heckling the preachers off that campus.

Keep preaching brothers Amen!

[ed2276]

What is also sad to me, along with their rejection of the Gospel, is that most of these students were African-Americans, whose families not so long ago were brutalized, murdered, beaten, and denied access to public facilities, including institutes of public education These. Past generations struggled and died to secure to these kids their civil/constitutional rights; yet they loudly cheered when once again the police/state went about trampling those rights once again.

They should be ashamed!

[ed2276]

Have you contacted your attorney about this, and do you plan to take this to court?

[skellys3]

@ed2276 Yes and Yes

[godswordsheal]

Wow....just wow.

[NobodySpecial85]

Glad to see you know your law very well. Christ Jesus continue to bless your preaching.

[JMcH]

Why isn't he telling the hecklers to leave???

[skellys3]

@JMcH Because they are "paid students" on "private property". They paid to be there and I didn't. At least, that is his reasoning...

[JMcH]

@skellys3 - His specious reasoning. If someone came to the campus to speak publicly about "safe sex" and was heckled, I seriously doubt that person would be ordered to leave under threat of arrest and I have no doubt that hecklers would be ordered to leave the person alone.

[skellys3]

@JMcH Very true...

[34craigjan]

@skellys3 , I've never seen someone so angry and intolerant to something he can be freed by. But people tend to be tolerant of everything else. Things that are wicked or have no meaning whatsoever. It must be tough for you guys who just want to preach the truth to the lost and are constantly being interrupted.

[skellys3]

@34craigjan We press on brother!

[ScottForLostSouls]

I'm Sad that a Historically Black College or University HBC was responsible for shunning the truth. Many HBC's were founded by the Church. Now secularism has taken over the minds of our youth. God bless your ministry in Jesus name....

[Briancranford]

Well Brothers good Job! You gave them every chance to think about what they were going to do and how they should have handled this! But being a street preacher myself and dealing with this I say Go gettem guys! Lay it to them and make it hurt! That man had 1 thing on his brain and that was to remove you! He needs to learn the law and you can give him his first lesson! God Bless you guys!

[skellys3]

@Briancranford  Thanks brother...

[melodicdreamer72]

I am very glad to see you stand up for your/our rights. Everywhere you turn and look these days it seems the police state is closing in on our rights, both "founding fathers" and God-given. It will be due to people's near-sightedness, weakness of self, or plain blindness that man will, in a manor of speaking, loose their God-given freewill. We can't win against this evil until the second coming of Christ, but we can slow the progress down by trying to save as many souls as possible.

[Thoswilliams]

It will be better for Sodom and Gomorrah than this campus who rejected the word because the citizens of that city would have received it. These people have sealed their fate .

[Thoswilliams]

Judgment is coming

[66thPsalm]

That cop said he was "going to go think about it" because he wasn't sure of the law and needed to go check it out! Skelly is good and well informed~

[buddyfisher1]

Absolutely amazing....and frightening. Why isn't the antagonistic crowd escorted off campus? College students cheering that the First Amendment is ending right in front of their eyes. I hope you make it very expensive and painful for KSU so this never happens again. God bless you brothers!

[skellys3]

@buddyfisher1 God Bless you too brother! We definitely hope to make it very expensive for them as well...to ensure that it NEVER happens again...

[Shoots1978]

haha, girl said what's your denomination? I would resond bible believeing christian. (and smile) :)

[jryan1971]

I thoroughly respect your willingness to stand up to authority that is so clearly in the wrong.

[askosnati]

I wish I was as brave as Kerrigan.

[skellys3]

@askosnati I am no one special...Proverbes 28:1

[iluvugo]

I know I saw an even mixture of white and black students there, but all of a sudden black students are protesting a white preacher.. smells of suspicion, also they are talking over you so you can't be heard.

[iluvugo]

Do you see how they radioed him after you said 'lawsuit' and 'freedom of speech'? I think these people set you up. They knew they couldn't legally get away with this and so they sought to find a 'good' reason why you shouldn't be there, inciting a riot would be their only option. I think that the campus officer knew ahead of time that students were coming to protest and was stalling you. No one before this encounter was upset, they were ignoring you. I wonder how much money they paid them.

[iluvugo]

You know when you look at people ignoring people who preach on the corner you realize they are really ashamed of themselves and don't want to hear it. So they dismiss them as strange or weird in order to excuse themselves or exempt themselves from the message.

[lildog73]

I don't think they asked you to leave because of the students, I think the word was cutting their hearts. Are you going to follow through with that lawsuit? I hope so. God bless.

[skellys3]

@lildog73 That definitely could be true brother. Yes, we are going to follow through. We just won one at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. Praise the Lord for victories!

[kobe88us]

Bless you brother for preaching the truth. I pray the Lord gives you favor. I pray for your protection and constant ability to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

[skellys3]

@kobe88us  Thank you for your prayers!

[catafarinha]

Oh wow, I was so nervous watching this video.

[skellys3]

@catafarinha LOL...

[droptozro]

I'm still awaiting the day when the preachers are getting arrested for breaking no laws that the by-standers realize what's happening to their own rights in their silence...

...there's gonna be a day the Americans realize---and a group tells the police arresting the preacher what the law is and takes their guns/badges away---WE PAY for YOU to PROTECT US... you obey US when it comes down to it, by the people for the people--or you won't have a job.

[skellys3]

@droptozro That day might not be far around the corner...

[skewed12]

Nice video. You're clearly in the right regarding your free speech, Kerrigan. Nice try standing up to the authorities also. I think you handled it about as well as you could've.

[skellys3]

@skewed12  Thank you...

[johnmcglone4]

The size of the community, or its level of tolerance, does not negate the responsibility of government to protect the Constitutional Rights of our members. Consequently, if “citizens must tolerate insulting, and even outrageous speech in order to provide ‘adequate breathing space’ to the freedoms ...

[johnmcglone4]

... the freedoms protected by the “First Amendment”, Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, 56 (1988), and though “the speech in question may have an adverse emotional impact on the audience” (ibid. @ 55), it has been repeatedly mandated by the highest court of the country that “police must permit the speech and control the crowd; there is no heckler’s veto” Hedges v. Wauconda Community Unit School District No. 118, et al., 9F.3d 1295, 1299-1300 (7th Cir. 1993).

[skellys3]

@Godisawesome44 That's right...the Supreme Court calls it the "Heckler's Veto" and he/she has NONE.