At Berkeley Yiannopoulos protest, $100,000 in damage, 1 arrest

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | February 2, 2017 | Michael Bodley

[grundle]

Unrest on the UC Berkeley campus Wednesday resulted in $100,000 in damage and just one arrest, officials said.

The university Thursday defended the hands-off approach of its police force in the midst of the chaos that broke out after a group of 150 or so black-clad, masked people hijacked a previously peaceful protest against a far-right provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulos, who had been scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley’s student center Wednesday night. The protest forced officials to cancel Yiannopoulos’ appearance.

Six minor injuries were reported in the fray, said Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for the university, and the one arrest was for failure to disperse.

In the city of Berkeley south of the campus, where protesters later paraded through the streets, some smashing store windows — about 15 in all — and spraying graffiti, there were no arrests, said Officer Byron White, a spokesman for the Berkeley Police Department.

White added that officers, even with extra staffing planned for the evening, were kept busy shutting off roads from protesters darting through traffic, saying that the department’s main priority was “the protection of life,” even if that meant some vandalism. No major injuries were reported, White noted.

[MarMema]

Calexit.

[ronnie raygun]

Like BLM they are destroying thier own. The minute they step out they will be crushed

[biggredd1]

Berkeley rioter identified...works at university
http://theralphretort.com/uc-berkeley-rioter-exposed-works-university-203017/

[WENDLE]

We will have to send in Homeland Security to neutralize these communist.BTW.I don’t care if these bastards secede their sorry tattood doped up bodies out of here but they will not be taking OUR LAND!! The land was made for you and ME!! GET THE HELL OUT!!

[Bogey78O]

‘The masked vandals, most, if not all, said to be from outside the campus, shut down Yiannopoulos’ talk before it started.’

The writer states they wore masks yet claims to know they weren’t feom the campus.

Totally pulled that one out their ass to defend the university.

[dragnet2]

100K my butt. The labor alone in CA will be more than half of that.

[Diogenesis]

The Administration and Gov’t PLANNED THIS
-— and should lose the Lawrence Livermore Lab
and ALL FUNDING.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Young Turks: UC Berkeley Riots Could Have Been Right-Wing Plot by 4chan
http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-young-turks-uc-berkeley-riots-could-have-been-right-wing-plot-by-4chan/

[Farmer Dean]

The rules of engagement need to change.Anyone rioting and wearing a mask becomes sniper bait.Makes it easy to ID the perps,the ME has lots of time.

[Grampa Dave]

Teh Rioting in Bezerkely will be coming to every sanctuary city in America.

Liberal mayors, city councils and their PC pussifed police chiefs will put the lives of innocents in their cities at risk while kissing and cherishing the illegal rectums in their sanctuary cities.

What happened this week in Bezerkley is coming every sanctuary city in America.

[David in Cal]

There was a similar planned riot just a couple of weeks ago, when Milo tried to speak at UC Davis, just 65 miles away. So, the Berkeley police had every reason to expect this.

[Grampa Dave]

Look at the tats on this guy.

Did he spend time in Folsom prison for severe assualt case?

[VRWCarea51]

#6 Actually it was the College President in his statement that blamed it on outsiders!

He’ll have to revise his statement for a third time.

[snarkytart]

And he brags about attacking someone, with the help of others, as if he’s such a badass with his tattoos. Dude probably never been in a one on one real fight in his life.

I hope the guy he attacked sues his ass and files a police report.

Again and again, I stated these filthy cowards are all over twitter bragging and threatening people. It takes no time to identify who they are.

So much for Berkeley’s claim nobody from their school was involved with the violence.

[Freee-dame]

No major injuries were reported

So now "minor" injuries are ok? Getting bloodied or beaten to the ground without needing hospitalization is ok, I guess.

[TigersEye]

Here’s a thought. Make that one person arrested responsible for paying the $100k in damages.

[mountainfolk]

From what I have read, the University is primarily, if not solely, responsible for the damages incurred by the illegal rampage against Free Speech. It was their responsibility to provide security for speakers hired or invited to their premises. They should be sued for all damages, and traumas to individuals, from the violence endured. They have endowment's to tap for the dollars that will be required to cover their negligence to provide security to all who enter their grounds.

[Candor7]

FIRE HOSES, PEPPER SPRAY, RUBBER BULLETS?

In Berkley these items of police equipment are weapons of mass destruction. They should have been used on the crowd and on these little paid Euroweenie style anarchists, who work for Soros, should have been arrested and interrogated on suspicion of sedition, and RICO offences.

Why not make these paid anarchists work hard for their money? They literally needed a shit kickin’ for felony property damage.

Trump indeed has grounds to cut off funding for the school; non protection of freedom of speech, refusal to enforce the law on campus?

[snarkytart]

puhlease, this OLD MAN simply has a “look” for whatever arrested development mindset he has going on in his dimwitted brain. Anybody who brags about physically attacking a kid with OTHER people helping out is a pure punk and weak ass.