Posted on 06/07/2017 11:27:49 AM PDT by simpson96
A UC Berkeley student who says she was violently attacked by protesters on campus the night of a planned speech by Milo Yiannopoulos in February is now suing the university — along with a host of others including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — for withholding police protection and allowing attacks like the one she suffered. As TMZ reports, the woman says she was "painfully pepper-sprayed" by "masked and unmasked assailants" within 15 minutes of her arriving at the Feb. 1 event, which was quickly canceled by the university as protests erupted that were both peaceful and anarchic — ultimately making national headlines and garnering a tweet from President Trump.
Kiara Robles, who on Twitter calls herself a conservative who is against political correctness and SJWs (social justice warriors), is suing for $23 million and names as defendants UC Berkeley, the university president, chancellor, the UC Regents chair, the mayor of Berkeley, Berkeley's chief of police, and Pelosi.
In the video below you can see Robles wearing a Make Bitcoin Great Again* hat and getting interviewed by ABC 7, followed by the pepper-spray attack from an on-looker.
Per TMZ, which obtained documents from the suit, Robles is accusing university officials of "willfully withholding police manpower" because they disagree with conservative views, and she accuses Pelosi of encouraging violence toward Trump supporters.
The university has responded in a statement saying, "We are confident that UC [Police Department's] actions will be vindicated against the plaintiff's uninformed allegations." And they say they will vigorously defend their actions and look forward to "contesting this collection of false claims."
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Conservatives should file class actions suits against every school practicing this.
Absolutely! Beat the Left at it’s own game.
The ACLU isn’t the only entity that has access to the courts.
I’m also surprised that folk have sued it out of existence.
Should add the Mayor to find out if they told police to stand down
Yup-that will de program the temper tantrums and all the other illegal bias Liberals are so drunk on.
It’s what THEY’D do in the same situation... and THEY WOULD succeed!
It’s time to make the law and the system work the same for EVERYONE
Good point, because it sure looked like they had ordered them to.
Absolutely love this brave young women. More power to her.
She probably knows she’s not going to win any money in this case, but more power to her for keeping the very dirty, very ugly fact of police/thug collusion out in the open.
Good, hit them w/ the only thing they care about: MONEY!
Let’s hope they win enough to close the horror down for good.
Shame she admits to being gay, otherwise I’d hit her.
I hope she gets lots!!
But what are the odds of a liberal judge not deciding it.
MOST don’t go to trial but if lawyers for the defense know what kind of judge or jury they’re gonna get, I dont know
Show the leftist it goes both ways!
Every school admin that has any part or piece of the PC code in force on their campus should be sued into financial ruin. Sue the individuals rather than the school itself.
And, imo, there should be some criminal conspiracy to defraud cases started up against any and all colleges and universities that have taken part in the SJW idiocies. The money they charge is for education suitable for further employment, not for leftist destructionist indoctrination.
I agree . I think a class action law suit is needed, I think that discovery would end up being very interesting.
Good. Bring it on. Better three, four months late than not at all!
“But what are the odds of a liberal judge not deciding it.”
Take it to friendly court. Why should the left be the only group who goes judge shopping?
“We are confident that UC [Police Department’s] actions will be vindicated against the plaintiff’s uninformed allegations.”
It’s not the Police who need to be vindicated; it’s the politicians and university administrators who told them to stand down. I hope that order was in writing and that it gets leaked by a whistle blower. It’s an outrage that either University administrators or the government conspire to make fellow citizens get hurt just because they disagree with them! It’s is beyond the beginning of fascism. It is fascism!
...bout time
Go get them.
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