Gov. Jeff Landry posted Monday night a video on social media saying LSU should put up a statue of Charlie Kirk , the conservative activist who was assassinated during a speech on a college campus last month.

“We're going to put a challenge out to the LSU Board of Supervisors to find a place to put a statue of Charlie Kirk to defend the freedom of speech on college campuses,” Landry says in the video, in which he is standing next to the Mike the Tiger statue near Tiger Stadium. “C'mon, ladies and gentlemen, let's see if we can be the first campus to do it.”

Landry posted the video after speaking at an event at LSU's student union theater hosted by Turning Point USA, the conservative student organization Kirk founded. More than 1,500 people attended, organizers said.

Kirk had been sc

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