The Department of Justice said on Tuesday that it will investigate the University of California, Berkeley, after protesters confronted attendees of a campus event hosted by Turning Point USA, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in September. Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the department’s civil rights division, wrote on X that the division would “investigate what happened here.” Ms. Dhillon, a conservative lawyer from California, described the protesters as members of Antifa, a label that the Trump administration has applied to broad groups of people protesting against the government. She wrote that, “I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA.” ...
The university also said that it was cooperating with the Justice Department and would work with the F.B.I. to “identify the outside agitators responsible for attempting to disrupt” the Turning Point event. “UC Berkeley will take all appropriate steps to safeguard the right of every member of our community to speak and assemble freely,” it said in the statement. More than 900 people had attended the Turning Point event...
Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/us/berkeley-protests-turning-point-doj-investigation.html.
Video from the protest from the web can be seen at:
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/11/bugged.html.
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