Posted on 02/02/2017 4:37:19 PM PST by markomalley
Crews may be fixing shattered windows and covering “Kill Trump” messages that pockmark the UC Berkeley campus after more than 1,000 people protested a Milo Yiannopoulos speech on Wednesday, but the campus community is still very much on edge.
Two men were caught on camera attacking a supporter of President Donald Trump on the university’s periphery.
Jack Palkovic says he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap and on his way to class Thursday when a white SUV slammed to a stop and two young men ran toward him. One of the men screamed an epithet, grabbed Palkovic's hat and pummeled him before the two got back in the vehicle and tried to drive away.
Police arrived, blocked their escape and arrested both men. Palkovic said he is a member of the college Republicans.
A UC Berkeley student described the ongoing violence as an aftershock of the protest that forced officials to nix the controversial Breitbart editor’s speech, order students to shelter in place and put UC Berkeley on lockdown.
Pictures and videos from the chaotic scene showed protesters – who university officials say were not students – lobbing rocks and fireworks at buildings, setting fires, breaking down police barriers, and smashing windows of banks and other Shattuck Avenue businesses. Fights broke out, a few people were hit with pepper spray, and a handful reported being injured, according to witness accounts.
On Thursday, students expressed anger that outsiders had trashed their campus — and their university's reputation.
Separately, Mike Cernovich, whose website describes him as an Orange County-based lawyer, author and documentary filmmaker, reached out on Twitter to people who were victims of “violence at the Berkeley riots.”
“We are reaching out to lawyers for a civil rights lawsuit,” he said. It remains unclear, however, who he plans to sue – UC Berkeley, the city itself or the Berkeley Police Department.
An article in Breitbart said that someone leaked to the public where Yiannopoulos and his team were staying, prompting his “Dangerous Faggot Tour” bus to get vandalized. A photograph shows that “Not my president” was spraypainted on the side of the vehicle.
Yiannopoulos was invited by the campus Republican club to speak at UC Berkeley. Members and others who were keen to hear his take on cultural appropriation claim that free speech met a fiery end at a university that has been known as the home of the Free Speech Movement.
Social media posts show people who were affected or injured during the protests blaming the Berkeley Police Department for not coming to their aid. Yiannopoulos even went so far as to claim university officials were “complicit” in the violence.
"One thing we do know for sure: the Left is absolutely terrified of free speech and will do literally anything to shut it down," Yiannopoulos said on Facebook after being evacuated from UC Berkeley.
For his part, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is facing backlash for labeling Yiannopoulos a “white nationalist.”
He later amended his comments by tweeting, “I consider much of what Mr. Yiannopoulos says to be hateful. But I regret and apologize for the white national label.”
The last Bay Area Trump-related melee occurred in June after a campaign rally in downtown San Jose. Fourteen Trump supporters filed a civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city’s police department of failing to protect them.
What is the difference between Nazis burning books to stifle free speech, thoughts and knowledge and UC students and others burning down Berkeley to stifle free speech, thoughts and knowledge? Not an iota of difference except one group wore brown shirts and one group wore black bandannas. Nazis of the 20th and 21st centuries are in virtual lock step.
I doubt those who remain can start a civil war. They can start a few riots -- riots can be entertaining and fun for the rioters -- but war is hard, brutal, terrifying, long-term work. I doubt the left is genuinely up to it.
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So?
Nobody is paying Black Bloc. That's just stupid.
They are dedicated communist revolutionaries.
“On Thursday, students expressed anger that outsiders had trashed their campus — and their university’s reputation.”
They are obviously delusional about Berkeley’s reputation.
“Jack Palkovic says he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap and on his way to class Thursday”
First, give that man an award for having the 2nd biggest balls in America. I wouldn’t do that unless I was armed and had a couple of extra magazines with me.
This is UC Berkley for cryin’ out loud.
Second, this is CLEARLY the fault of the Mayor and UC Regents and Chancellor. Sue those bastards and let the local and state taxpayers pay the bill.
Third, if this shit doesn’t stop Trump will have to Federalize the CA National Guard and order them to put down the rioting and do so quickly. Treat them like rabid dogs in the street.
These are not your typical pussy hat idiots, these guys (antifa) are funded, organized and trained as an anarchist army and they intend to have their way. Not unlike your average jihadi head chopper.
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Antifa
Hitler’s Brown Shirts used the precisely same tactics. They would go to opposing political rallies and bust heads, or go to their favorite gathering places and bust heads.
That’s what these guys do.
“Good luck if these idiots actually start fighting people outside of their little safe spaces and in areas that are conservative or Republican.”
You got it. BLM sent one of their big chiefs down to South Carolina to stir up trouble. Wrong state, genius. The racist thug was arrested for attempted murder and is facing 10 to 20 years in state prison.
The factual history of that incident is NOT known by the majority of the American populace, today; however, the lefty propaganda about it is; sadly.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, the National Guard SHOULD be sent in, but it has the probability of making things worse.
“FOLLOW THE MONEY!! Find out who is paying these protesters!”
Isn’t that what the police and the district attorney should be doing??
State?
FBI?
They used to call this sort of parasite an “Ambulance Chaser” ad heap scorn on him.
Now they advertise on TV and make millions while clogging the courts.
Sign of the times.
FOLLOW THE MONEY!! Find out who is paying these protesters!
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Then sue them and charge them with civil rights violations.
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