While attendees did manage to get inside the building, so too did protestors, with one confronting Grossman and allegedly assaulting her in front of the packed crowd. Two of the demonstrators were eventually arrested.
Footage from inside the lecture hall shows one activist wearing a transgender flag and carrying a Palestinian flag disrupting the event, walking down the stairs to challenge Grossman.
Following a brief exchange wherein Grossman informed the activist that they could have a platform "when you get invited to speak in front of a school," they tried to grab the mic.
When Grossman pulled it back and a man asked the activist to leave, the activist instead proceeded to move up to the front of the room and begin shouting.
"44,000 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel," the activist shrieked, failing to cite where those numbers had come from. "20,000 of them are children."
"This is not something that you get to ignore, it's not a trend, it's not something that's funny," they added, amid repeated calls to leave.
The activist went on to accuse Grossman of having "paid militias to murder labor organizers" during her time as senior vice president of Dole. When Grossman tried to argue against the allegations, the activist put their hands on her, at which point the crowd got vocal and a security guard got involved.
As they were escorted off the premises, Grossman calmly continued with her talk.
"Pro-Hamas protesters blocked half of the attendees from this over-booked TPUSA event at [Mercer] from getting in, and then another activist wrapped in a Trans Flag assaulted [Atlas Society] CEO Jennifer Grossman inside as she was attempting to get him to leave," TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk wrote in a post on X. "Two of these radicals were arrested outside. Good."
"Have your protests," he added, "but do NOT block our students' right to free speech."
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