Boise, Idaho — A brawl broke out during a vigil for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk outside the Idaho State Capitol on Sept. 10, 2025, just hours after he was shot at an event in Utah Valley, footage and local reports show.
Video captured by a spectator and aired by local station KIVI shows a man on a bicycle shouting an expletive aimed at Kirk. Several people in the crowd rushed toward the man, who can be seen surrounded as bystanders yelled and shoved. One spectator is heard saying, "I'm not condoning violence – beat his ass," as others screamed in shock and tried to restrain those fighting. Dylan Anson, a local who attended the vigil, told KIVI he helped pull people off the man until police arrived to disperse the disturbance.
Footage reviewed by news outlets shows a green bicycle fallen on its side near the road outside the Capitol as a crowd surrounds the heckler. The clips were shared by Taylor Reinecker via the agency Storyful and subsequently circulated by local and national news organizations. Local authorities moved in to break up the melee; KIVI reported officers restored order at the scene.
The vigil had been organized in Boise to mourn Kirk after he was shot hours earlier at a Utah Valley event. Video distributed by Reuters showed Kirk throwing hats to a crowd shortly before he was shot. National media outlets, including the New York Post, published front pages reacting to the assassination.
Attendees at the Boise gathering expressed mixed reactions as tensions rose. Anson told the local outlet, "Charlie Kirk, he stood as a Christian man and as Christians we do not support violence. A wrong plus a wrong does not make a right." The altercation highlighted heightened emotions at public gatherings following a high-profile political killing.
Police statements and official details about arrests or injuries related to the disturbance were not immediately available in the footage and local broadcasts. The investigation into the shooting that killed Kirk and any law enforcement response tied to incidents at vigils and memorials remained ongoing, with authorities continuing to release information through their public channels.
The events in Boise underscored sharply polarized public responses to violent incidents involving political figures, as mourners gathered to pay respects and counterprotesters and hecklers converged at the state Capitol. Local law enforcement officials and organizers of the Boise vigil urged attendees to remain peaceful while authorities pursued inquiries into both the assassination and the subsequent unrest that followed the announcement of Kirk's death.