Second venue opened for Charlie Kirk memorial as colossal crowd of supporters flows though streets



Blaze News has confirmed that the overflow crowd from the Charlie Kirk memorial service is being directed toward a second arena due to the sheer numbers of supporters.

Tens of thousands of Kirk's fans showed up as early as 4 a.m. to get in line at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, where the event, "Building a Legacy: Remembering Charlie Kirk," is taking place.

'We just want to be a small part of it.'

The crowd was initially thought to be more than 100,000. The NFL stadium typically holds a maximum of over 78,000 when including standing room. However, as a gargantuan crowd formed, estimates were tripled to approximately 300,000.

Blaze News' team is live at the event and was able to confirm that the crowd was so large outside the stadium that the nearby Desert Diamond Arena is now packed to the brim with more of the memorial's attendees.

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About a five-minute walk from State Farm Stadium, the arena has a capacity of 19,000. It was formerly used by the Arizona Coyotes NHL team until 2022, when it was called the Gila River Arena.

Now, it is home to the professional bull-riding team the Arizona Ridge Riders and the indoor football team the Arizona Rattlers.

Outside the venue, attendees gave their thoughts and their memories of Kirk.

"He could listen to people, tell his side, listen to what they had to say, and, you know, he was OK with it," one fan told Blaze News.

"And why somebody was taken for doing that kind of work, I have no idea. Just pure evil and sad," the mourner added.

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Inside State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025 during the Charlie Kirk memorial. Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images

Another man told Blaze News as he waited outside, "it's great to see the hearts and minds of America change the way they have been."

"We just want to be a small part of it. Obviously we can't get in today, but it was cool to at least experience this and witness it," he added.

Jose Miguel Santiago, a spokesman for the police department in Glendale, told the New York Times that setting up security measures around the event was an "all hands on deck" operation that was Super Bowl-like in nature. In fact, the spokesman told the outlet the process was similar to how agencies prepared for Super Bowl LVII in 2023.

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Trump supporters clash with police in DC protest ahead of Wednesday's planned rally



Supporters of President Donald Trump clashed with Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police on Tuesday night, on the eve of a planned rally in support of the president's ongoing challenge to the results of the 2020 presidential election called for President-elect Joe Biden.

Footage on the ground shows pepper spray being deployed by officers and some protesters condemning law enforcement as officers sought to keep the peace at Black Lives Matter Plaza, where counterprotesters had also reportedly congregated.

What are the details?

Trump supporters from across the U.S. converged on the nation's capital city ahead of the "Save America March" set for Wednesday, when the president plans to address the rally.

Late Tuesday evening, video from independent journalists and photographs from Getty Images showed skirmishes from the scene and one woman with a bloodied face who said she was assaulted by a Black Lives Matter activist.

Journalist Brendan Gutenschwager reported that Trump supporters and the Proud Boys attempted to enter BLM Plaza but police pushed back against the protesters seeking access. Several clips show officers using pepper spray to push back the crowd, in what the reporter called a "chaotic scene."

Following pushback from police and the arrests of some Trump supporters, one man was seen on camera berating officers, telling them, "You lost both sides of support. We had your f***ing back, but we ain't got your back no more!"

“You lost both sides of support. We had your f***ing back, but we ain’t got your back no more!” Trump supporters ye… https://t.co/12htdgi30v
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@Brendan Gutenschwager)1609903886.0

Journalist Tomas Morales shared footage online showing a woman badly bloodied, who says on the video that she was hit by a BLM supporter and that the police protected the alleged assailant.

Woman claims she was hit by BLM & that MPD protected the aggressor. #BLMPlaza https://t.co/mUTDmmM5Oa
— Tomas Morales (@Tomas Morales)1609902927.0

A photographer from Getty Images also documented the woman's injuries, saying the woman was "struck in the face when police attempted to push back a group of pro-Trump protesters that tried to push through their lines into Black Lives Matter Plaza."

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According to Morales, as of around 11 p.m. EST, riot police remained "on standby outside of BLM Plaza."

NOW: Riot Police on standby outside of BLM Plaza. https://t.co/tY0nAVEO97
— Tomas Morales (@Tomas Morales)1609904564.0

Trump supporters gather outside Denver's Dominion Voting Services headquarters

Trump supporters gathered outside Denver, Colorado's Dominion Voting Services headquarters, Saturday, protesting alleged election fraud

Keith Olbermann: Trump supporters 'must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society'



Longtime sportscaster-turned-far-left-pundit-turned-sportscaster Keith Olbermann is a far-left pundit again, leaving ESPN for the fourth time in order to host a YouTube show dedicated to helping Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden defeat President Donald Trump in the election.

But Olbermann told his audience on Thursday that the battle extends far beyond Election Day, and called for the president and his supporters to be "prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society."

What are the details?

Olbermann announced Tuesday that he would be leaving ESPN amicably in order to launch his new political show in an effort to impact the upcoming election.

During his second show that aired Thursday, Olbermann went on a tirade, declaring that "Trump can be, and must be, expunged. The hate he has triggered, Pandora's boxes he has opened, they will not be so easily destroyed."

"So, let us brace ourselves," he continued, saying, "The task is two-fold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and then he, and his enablers, and his supporters, and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs, and Sean Hannitys, and the Mike Pences, and the Rudy Gullianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has destroyed by turning it over to a virus."

Olbermann did not state what alleged crimes Trump and his supporters "must" be prosecuted for.

"Remember it, even as we dream for a return to reality and safety and the country for which our forefathers died, that the fight is not just to win the election, but to win it by enough to chase — at least for a moment — Trump and the maggots off the stage and then try to clean up what they left," Olbermann went on to say.

He added, "Remember it, even though to remember it, means remembering that the fight does not end on November 3rd, but in many ways, will only begin that day."

Remove ACB fr society. @KeithOlberman in YouTube rant: “Trump can be and must be expunged....His enablers...the Mik… https://t.co/34a7udJN1R
— Brent Baker (@Brent Baker)1602271997.0

The Washington Post reported that during an interview Tuesday, Olbermann told the newspaper "that he had been watching cable news during the Trump era and concluded there was room, even a necessity, for a stronger anti-Trump voice — a claim that might leave viewers of MSNBC and CNN furrowing their brows."

Olbermann was quoted as saying, "As good as the hands-on reporting is, as good as they are at ferreting out and describing what's wrong, I see the cable and broadcast networks still hesitant to say, 'That's a lie' or, 'This is disloyal to the Constitution' or, 'This is an attempt to establish the preface to a dictatorship — or at least authoritarianism.'"

So, Olbermann believes he will be able to contribute more through his style to defeat Trump than left-leaning mainstream outlets.

"I think it's fair to say that conservatives in politics and media know a little bit better what to bring to a knife fight," he added. "Liberals — and I'm hearing it from Joe Biden — say, 'Well, there are Republicans we can work with,' and I'm like, 'I can't hear you; I'm getting the flamethrower ready.' I'm going to bring the flamethrower."