Berkeley Limits Crowd Size for Conservative Speaker to Half the Auditorium Citing (T)

townhall.com ^ | 9/5/2017 | Lauretta Brown

[rktman]

Berkeley replied in an e-mail to Townhall that given “recent, violent incidents in the City of Berkeley and Charlottesville, the University of California Police Department (UCPD) recently completed a revised security assessment for the September 14th event featuring Ben Shapiro.”

They said this is “consistent with demands presented by the BCR to the UCPD in a recent written communication, as well as University’s event policy that applies to all student organizations and clearly states:

“If UCPD determines that, because of new information it has received or changing circumstances, its security assessment must be modified, it will schedule additional meetings or communications with the LEAD Center, sponsors, and other appropriate stakeholders to discuss its revised recommendations.”

"As a result of UCPD’s revised assessment and guidance provided by the department’s command staff, the hosting student organization has been informed about the following, additional security measures that will be implemented in order to support our commitment to help facilitate a safe and successful event":

[rktman]

Well, if Ben can actually make it to the auditorium past the assclown Aunt Teefuh types. Have the UCPD been told to stand aside yet? How about berzerkley pd? Will the bother to enforce the NO MASK ordinance/law/rule or whatever they put in place?

[rktman]

NON Print version:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/09/05/berkeley-limits-crowd-size-for-conservative-speaker-to-half-the-auditorium-citing-security-assessment-n2377308

[Skywise]

Security Assessment my butt. This serves two purposes:

They can state that the audience for conservative speakers never gets anywhere near as high as the audience for leftists do they can use that to block further speech requests.

They can stuff half the auditorium with communists (AntiFa) to shout down and intimidate the speakers.

Free speech for me but not for thee.

[txrefugee]

Bet you can’t find a bicycle lock on the shelves anywhere near Berkley. That’s how “free speech” is handled by the Left.

[Travis McGee]

[Reno89519]

So, they can hold a meeting but with no crowd, well just a few in the smallest auditorium available? Seems rigged and bet they still will have challenges with the protesters. And rigged so only a few participants, who will be outnumbered by protesters. Rigged.

[Unam Sanctam]

Are these restrictions content neutral?