RALEIGH, N.C. – Tensions ran high Wednesday night when student groups clashed at NC State over a lecture at the student union by conservative speakers Charlie Kirk and Lara Trump.

• Protesters and supporters gathered at NC State's student union Wednesday night at a conservative forum.
• This comes after an altercation on campus lead to a student getting spray-painted in the face.
• Speaker, Charlie Kirk, spoke at the event about how white supremacy has no place in the conservative movement.

An estimated 2,000 people in total packed the Talley Student Center, 1,200 of which were there to hear the speakers.

The forum was held by Turning Point USA, a conservative student group that promotes small government and fervently supports the second amendment.

The lecture was called "Culture War". Students were invited to hear Charlie Kirk and Lara Trump "take on big government, culture and the left."

NOTE: Kirk is the leader of Turning Point USA. Lara Trump is a conservative activist and wife of Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump.

Tensions were already running high on campus due to an altercation in the Free Expression Tunnel earlier in the week where students against the forum were spray painting over ads for the event by Turning Point USA, and Senator Dan Bishop’s son wound up getting spray-painted in the face.

NOTE: The Free Expression Tunnel is a tunnel at NC State that connects parts of the campus divided by train tracks where students are allowed to use spray paint to express anything they want.

Protesters chanted things like "racists go home" and "no hate in our state" outside of the lecture.

During the lecture, an outwardly spoken supporter of the white supremacist movement was shut down by Kirk, who posted to Twitter, "They have no place in the conservative movement."