Texas Tech student Greg Abbott blasted for mocking Charlie Kirk is jailed, no longer enrolled

Texas Tech University declined to say Monday why its police officers arrested a student who was filmed in a heated exchange at a vigil for Charlie Kirk — an incident that drew national attention, with Gov. Greg Abbott cheering her arrest for mocking the conservative activist’s assassination.

The university police department would only say that the student, 18-year-old Camryn Giselle Booker, was charged on Friday with simple assault, a class C misdemeanor that typically does not result in jail time. The department said the arrest happened in a “free speech area” near the student union. She was booked into the Lubbock County jail at 4:52 p.m., and released the next day at 2:11 p.m. after paying a $200 bond, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office said.