Gunshots or car backfiring at Berkley TPUSA event?

X ^ | Nov. 11, 2025 | Frontlines TPUSA

[ViLaLuz]

Video on X: An ANTIFA member just lit off a flare resulting in TPUSA event attendees being rushed inside.

A car then comes and starts backfiring visibly scaring multiple attendees who feared they were hearing gunshots.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: berzerkely; democratterrorism; democratterrorists

[ViLaLuz]

The sounds in question start 14 seconds in. Do you believe it's car backfiring, gunshots or something else?

[ViLaLuz]

If you don’t have X and want to see the comments go here:
https://xcancel.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/1988063048825970850

[Tell It Right]

At Breitbart there are also videos of Antifa at this TPUSA event lighting flares and with threatening points to the neck (like Charlie Kirk got shot).

[ViLaLuz]

Thanks for that link.

[Tell It Right]

IMHO the best way to handle those kinds of protest is to laugh at them like the incels they are.

[Fledermaus]

Cars still backfire?

[citizen]

I don’t think cars backfire any more. Maybe in Cuba.

[ViLaLuz]

That was my exact same question.

[Political Junkie Too]

I was just thinking that!

Besides, aren't they all EV cars at Berkeley?

-PJ

[ViLaLuz]

If they’re firing upon TPUSA attendees you’d have to laugh at them while taking cover.

[fhayek]

Exactly. I don’t think I have heard a car backfire since the 1970’s. It was something else. And not a very funny something else.

[ViLaLuz]

Can you tell the type of car in the video? It does look like an older model.

[Vaduz]

The byrna gun sounds just like a real gun maybe it’s all it was.

[gloryblaze]

Very disturbing.

[bert]

cars do not backfire anymore.

[JeemBeau]

Cars can be mmade to deliberately backfire by installing a “two-step” electronic ignition (and fuel control?). You’ll hear them being used by “youths” in any moderately large city. They sound like an M-16 clip being emptied.

[DownInFlames]

Gunshots.

[bryan999]

Aren’t Antifa considered terrorists now?

So can’t they just be shot on site...??

[tumblindice]

The terrorists are masked, hiding their faces, but demand ICE LEOs be unmasked so they can ID and threaten them and their families.

[Major Matt Mason]

It's a backfire - you can see a flash on the last backfire before the car drives away.