WATCH: Daily Wire’s Knowles To Tucker Carlson: College Where I Was Attacked Is Tacitly Permitting Political Violence

At a student-hosted event on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Thursday night, The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles’ speech titled “Men Are Not Women” was shut down by social justice protesters, one of which sprayed an unknown chemical on Knowles, prompting campus police to subdue and arrest the student. On Friday, the chancellor of the university issued a statement to the UMKC community in which he branded Knowles as a bigot who supposedly rejects “diversity and inclusion” and praised the students who organized to protest the conservative event.

“A student group brought a speaker to campus — a speaker whose professed opinions do not align with our commitment to diversity and inclusion and our goal of providing a welcoming environment to all people, particularly to our LGBT community,” UMKC Chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal alleged in the letter. “Upon learning of this speaker’s visit, members of our UMKC community responded in the best way — by organizing and conducting a counter-event across campus Thursday afternoon focused on positive messages about diversity and inclusion. And even during the speech, some peaceful protesters stood and expressed disagreement with the speaker’s views. Then, unfortunately, some others crossed a line.”