An Illinois State University graduate student who flipped a Turning Point USA table on campus was arrested and fired from his teaching assistant position after clip of the hot-headed move made waves online, the school confirmed Monday.

Derek Lopez, 27, was caught on camera last week storming over to the table where students with Illinois State University’s TPUSA chapter were advertising conservative comedian Alex Stein’s Oct. 20 event at the school. 4

“Well, you know, Jesus did it, so you know I gotta do it, right?” Lopez said before he attempted to rip the tablecloth, only to topple the table on its side.

Jesus famously overturned multiple tables inside of a Jewish temple and chased out swarms of “money changers” and animal breeders he declared turned a “house of prayer” into a “d

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