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by Chris Palmer Published Sept. 19, 2025, 12:55 p.m. ET

A Drexel University student was arrested in Utah this week after posting a video to YouTube in which he said he was going to travel to the same university where Charlie Kirk was assassinated to “fulfill my lifelong duty of finally killing woke,” authorities said.

Blake Francis Rogers posted a 70-second video to a private account on Sept. 15 and sent it to about a dozen people, according to an affidavit of probable cause for his arrest.

After the FBI discovered the video, local authorities said they went to Rogers’ family’s house in Summit County, where he’d been staying, and he admitted creating the video but said it was intended as a joke.

Rogers, 20, was arrested an

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