The last person to speak to Charlie Kirk before his assassination was a liberal TikToker with a small audience who disagreed with Kirk on just about everything – except for their shared belief in free speech and raw political debate.

“I wanted to challenge him,” the TikToker, Hunter Kozak, 29, said in an interview at his home in Utah. “He went with arms open to say, ‘Challenge me, please.’”

It was in that spirit that Kozak decided to attend Kirk’s rally at Utah Valley University in Orem, where he is studying math education.

Kozak – who used the handle @staxioms online – said he arrived about 90 minutes early to join the line of attendees hoping to speak with Kirk, and was ushered toward the front of the line after he previewed his question to the event’s organisers.

He asked Kirk about

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