UPDATE: DOJ Launches Investigation into UC Berkeley After Antifa Thugs Attack TPUSA Event

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On Monday night, a Turning Point USA event at UC Berkeley turned violent when Antifa goons showed up and started wreaking havoc.

The university failed to protect the conservative students and other guests attending the TPUSA event, taking no action to stop these Antifa terrorists from turning their campus into a warzone.

Now, the DOJ is launching a full investigation into UC Berkeley.

This clip from Monday night shows how chaotic it got:

🚨 BREAKING: Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon is launching an INVESTIGATION into UC Berkeley allowing a total WARZONE to break out at Turning Point USA’s campus event last night

“The Civil Rights Division will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA.” – @AAGDhillon

GOOD! This can no longer be tolerated.

Campuses have a DUTY to ensure their visitors and students are safe. You can’t just allow violence to run rampant because you disagree with their politics.

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon has informed UC Berkeley’s president that the DOJ is now fully investigating the university’s failure to handle the incident.

She is accusing them of violating federal civil rights laws, including the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Dhillon announced on X:

Antifa terrorism will not be tolerated — especially on college campuses!

Attorney General Pam Bondi also responded:

Antifa is an existential threat to our nation.

The violent riots at UC Berkeley last night are under full investigation by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. We will continue to spare no expense unmasking all who commit and orchestrate acts of political violence.

Under President Trump’s leadership, and pursuant to his Executive Order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, the Department of Justice and our law-enforcement partners are dismantling violent networks that seek to intimidate Americans and suppress their free expression and First Amendment rights.

Several Antifa members have been arrested in connection with the incident at UC Berkeley.

CBS News has more:

On Monday night, dozens of mostly peaceful protesters gathered near the Turning Point event on the university’s campus, and scuffles broke out between police and some protesters, videos of the demonstrations show. At one point, somebody threw smoke bombs, CBS News Bay Area reported.

According to a statement from the Berkeley Police Department, two men were arrested on suspicion of fighting in public. One of those individuals was released after officers determined that a 25-year-old man had stolen his chain and he was attempting to get it back.

Two other individuals were arrested by campus police for failing to comply with directions, a university spokesman said. One was a current student and the other had no affiliation with the university, according to a spokesperson. One 45-year-old man attending the event was hit by a glass bottle and transported to the hospital.

In a statement, UC Berkeley said the school “is conducting a full investigation” and will cooperate with federal authorities to “identify the outside agitators responsible for attempting to disrupt last night’s TPUSA event.”

“There is no place at UC Berkeley for attempts to use violence or intimidation to prevent lawful expression or chill free speech,” the statement read.

This isn’t the first time an event featuring conservative speakers has sparked protests on the Berkeley campus. In 2017, a planned speech by right-wing activist Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled after hundreds of protesters gathered and lit fires and damaged property.

Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department, wrote on X that her division will investigate “several issues of serious concern regarding campus and the local security” on the school’s campus.

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet claims this was a coordinated attack by Antifa.

He also says that leftists have been reserving tickets for TPUSA events in an effort to prevent more conservatives from attending.

Watch what he had to reveal to Jesse Waters here:

🚨 BREAKING: It was just confirmed not ONLY did Antifa plot an ambush on TPUSA’s UC Berkeley event last night – but leftists are fraudulently GRABBING UP tickets to their events EN MASSE to make sure less conservatives can attend.

We are up against TRULY despicable people.

“This was an absolutely COORDINATED attack to disrupt the event – and thank goodness they failed.”

“We had to switch to the university’s ticketing system – which opened it up to far-left disruptors to grab those tickets. So about 500 people didn’t show up. They grab the tickets, then leave it empty to make it look like we don’t have a big, growing movement after Charlie’s assassination.”

“They either got scared away, harassed or attacked. And the university’s response? ‘It’s not our job to fill your event.’ Well, WE FILLED IT ANYWAY!” @AndrewKolvet
🔥🔥🔥

“We’re not stopping!”

And yet, in spite of it all, none of it worked.

The event at UC Berkeley was filled to the brim last night.

This is awesome to see:

 



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