SAN ANTONIO, Texas
At San Antonio City Hall, participants of an anti-ICE protest handed out flyers encouraging people to disrupt the upcoming three-day Turning Point Women’s Leadership Summit.
This plan to disrupt the summit emerged after a local man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posting a threatening message online related to the event, declaring, “I know where to blow up.”
The demonstrations on Saturday primarily targeted Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts across the state. They also served to rally support for the disruption of the planned summit.
Just days before, a man named Jacob Wenske, 26, was arrested for making threatening comments regarding the leadership summit. He faces two felony charges for targeting a speaker named Erica Kirk.
A court-issued warrant referenced an email from Wenske that included an explicit threat: “Death to Erica Kirk and all the speakers there!! America can survive without them on earth. All Christian nationalists will die from the bombings that occur at every Turning Point rally and event.”
Wenske is currently held with a bail set at $120,000.
Over 100 people participated in Saturday’s anti-ICE protest, organized by various left-leaning groups, including 50501, Indivisible, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), among others.
Breitbart, Texas, reported that flyers were being handed out at the event, which called for disruption of the Turning Point Women’s Summit in early June. The flyers prominently featured the message “Keep Kirk Out of Texas” and urged participants to “make as much noise as possible” to convey that San Antonio does not endorse misogyny or white supremacy.
Much like other protests organized by leftist groups in downtown San Antonio, the event included members from 50501, LULAC, and PSL. Some demonstrators wore Palestinian keffiyeh scarves and displayed provocative slogans on their clothing. One anti-ICE protester, dressed in a jacket that read “F*&^Texas National Guard,” distributed flyers calling for disruption of the upcoming summit.
The flyers provided a link to an Instagram account and detailed a plan to interrupt the women’s leadership event. A speaker in a video linked to the account expressed intentions to stage a presence near the venue and then march to the hotel where the summit will take place.
