
Hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police as a white nationalist took to the stage at Texas A&M University on Tuesday night.

Demonstrators were confronted by law enforcement outside of the student center during Richard Spencer's speech on white supremacy, the head of the far right think-tank, The National Policy Institute.

'At the end of the day, America belongs to white men,' Spencer said to the audience of 400 people.

Videos and images on social media showed riot police moving protesters from the Memorial Student Center as Spencer spoke.

Texas A&M Police arrested two non-students during the event as tensions rose, but they insisted the event was 'peaceful'.

Spencer was disowned by his elite Texas prep school last month when he was caught on camera saying 'hail Trump' as the crowd flashed him a Nazi salute.

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Hundreds of people protested white nationalist Richard Spencer (pictured) as he spoke at an engagement on the Texas A&M University campus

Several groups clashed with riot police (left) outside the student center Tuesday night during and before Spencer's appearance. Some students, who were sitting in on his speech, asked Spencer questions surrounding his beliefs

One student from the university tweeted out several videos of the scene. In one video several people were heard yelling, 'Let them go!' as police (pictured) tried to 'push protesters' out the door. 'No Nazi's, no KKK, no fascist USA!' protesters chanted

Spencer (left during his speech and right), who is known for spreading white supremacist views, was disowned by his elite Texas prep school last month when he was caught on camera saying 'hail Trump' as the crowd flashed him a Nazi salute. During his speech a woman dressed as a clown held up a sign that read: 'He's the real bozo'

Ahead of Tuesday's speech, Spencer spoke with CNN and claimed that he is not a white supremacist, despite speaking of a Western civilization that, he said, 'only white people can support'.

He told the network that the university's reaction to his speaking 'shows the power of the alt-right and the power of our ideas'.

A group of officers were even barricading a stairway, while protesters chanted 'The whole world is watching.'

One student from the university tweeted out several videos of the scene. One video several people were heard yelling, 'Let them go!' as police tried to 'push protesters' out the door.

In one video, a woman was dragged from the crowd and onto the floor by police, who tied her hands behind her back with a plastic tie.

'No Nazi's, no KKK, no fascist USA!' protesters chanted.

Videos and images on social media showed riot police (pictured) moving protesters from the Memorial Student Center as Spencer spoke in the building

Protesters sing on the Texas A&M University campus where they faced riot officers during Spencer's speech Tuesday night

Ahead of Tuesday's speech, Spencer claimed that he is not a white supremacist, despite speaking of a Western civilization that, he said, 'only white people can support'. A group of people standing in the room holding their fists in the air protested inside where Spencer was speaking

Several students stood up and shouted at Spencer for his remarks made during his speech

Jacob Jackson, a freshman international studies major, listens after asking a question to Spencer

Texas A&M Black Lives Matter supporters listen as Spencer, the leader of the National Policy Institute, spoke on campus at an event not sanctioned by the school

At one point during Spencer's speech, a woman dressed in a clown outfit walked in front of the stage holding a sign that said: 'He's the real bozo.'

Those attending the speech had to walk a gantlet of chanting protesters while leaving the hall.

Hundreds more gathered at nearby Kyle Field to hear music and speeches highlighting diversity and unity as a counter to Spencer.

Earlier on Tuesday, some protesters silently held placards while others loudly chanted slogans.

A&M officials say they didn't schedule the speech by Spencer. Instead, he was invited to speak by a former student who reserved campus space available to the public.

In one video, a woman (being held down by police) was dragged from the crowd and onto the floor by police, who tied her hands behind her back with a plastic tie

Students (pictured) stood face-to-face inside the student center on campus holding up their fists as law enforcement officers tried to keep them out of the ballroom where Spencer was speaking

Hundreds more demonstrators (pictured) gathered at nearby Kyle Field to hear music and speeches highlighting diversity and unity as a counter to Spencer

Students standing outside the student center are pictured holding a sign that says 'Hate is not an Aggie value'

Texas A&M Senior Vice President Amy Smith told CNN in a statement: 'To be clear, Texas A&M University, including faculty, staff, students and/or student groups, did not invite this speaker to our campus nor do we endorse his rhetoric in any way.'

The university is located in College Station, a town where Aggie alum Preston Wiginton, who invited Spencer to the campus, lives.

Because the school is a public university, permission for the event could not be denied, officials told CNN.

In a Monday interview on CNN's 'Anderson Cooper 360,' Wiginton said: 'I think the reaction to Trump being elected, and the reaction with the alt-right being popular, is a reaction to it (US) declining as a white nation.'

Wiginton said he wanted to bring Spencer to campus because he wanted to spread the message that white people face marginalization.

'Why would I want to see America become less white?' Wiginton asked rhetorically in the interview. 'Why would I want to be displaced and marginalized?'

In his interview with CNN, he also addressed the speech he gave last month when members of the alt-right movement gathered to celebrate Donald Trump's victory.

'Hail Trump! Hail our people! Hail victory!' Spencer shouted during the speech in November, as the crowd gave him a Nazi salute.

Shortly after the controversial speech, his prep school, St Marks, said that the values honored by friends and alumni of the school were 'under attack' by their white supremacist classmate.

A&M officials say they didn't schedule the speech by Spencer. Instead, he was invited to speak by a former student who reserved campus space available to the public. Law enforcement officers attempt to convince a protester (pictured with a mask on) to step down the stairs

Because the school is a public university, permission for the event could not be denied, university officials said. Meanwhile, police attempted to disperse protesters outside of the speech in different areas around campus

Texas A&M student Harsimran Singh, from India, signs a message board outside Kyle Field where students held their own event while Spencer spoke

'Spencer's views are un-American and a threat to civil society,' they said in a statement. 'We reject them and urge everyone to join us in condemning him and his agenda.'

He made the speech at a gathering by the National Policy Institute, a think-tank that is part of the alt-right movement that includes neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites, on Saturday, November 21.

The headmaster of St Mark's School, in Texas, David W Dini, told NBC News that Spencer's comments brought 'even greater attention to these hateful, divisive, racist, and anti-Semitic views.'

A woman holding a 'Black and brown lives matter' sign chants alongside other demonstrators before Spencer took to the stage to speak to an audience on campus

A protester is pictured holding a sign that reads: 'We are indigenous to this continent'