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The University of New Mexico told Fox News Digital there is an investigation ongoing to see "who violated the law" after Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren was escorted to safety Thursday night when angry protestors shut down her speech on the Albuquerque campus.
"I would not have gotten out of there last night if it wasn’t for New Mexico State Police and Albuquerque P.D. I would not have gotten out of there, so I owe them a lot," Lahren told Fox News Digital from an Albuquerque hotel room.
Lahren, also an Outkick host, is used to being confronted by angry liberal protestors who attempt to silence her conservative views, calling it "pretty routine stuff" she encounters frequently when speaking to college students. It was no different on Thursday when she was set to speak New Mexico’s Turning Point USA chapter inside a large event space at the student union. She saw a few signs claiming she was a "White supremacist," but thought the presence of campus police would deter any serious resistance.
"We were told that they were going to be out in the courtyard, not allowed into the student union, these counterprotesters or whatever they were. We were told that they're going to be kept outside," she said.
"I start my speech and you can hear the chants and you can hear the screaming and the expletives. And again, nobody really thought anything of it. They're just, you know, fired up. And I didn't really think too much of it until they started pushing past the officers and banging on the doors so much that these double doors are visibly moving and shaking and they are smashing into the windows. And that's when it became incredibly chaotic," Lahren continued. "Everybody was worried that they were going to get inside. They were pushing officers in front of the doors and pushing them out of the way. I mean, attacking them. It started to get very ugly and very violent, very fast. Of course, we could only see through these little windows in the front the room we were in, so we couldn't really see exactly what was going on out there."
Through the tiny window, Lahren said she could see people franticly banging on the doors.
"At that point, they made the decision that we could probably end the speech and I needed to get somewhere in case they did break through the doors, because it started to become apparent that that might be a very realistic possibility," Lahren said. "So, they escorted me with a couple of Campus PD officers into the back kitchen of the student union, and we were just barricaded back there, for lack of a better term, because they didn't know how to get me out."