Author Topic: [NEWS] Violent UC Berkeley riots force cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos event (Read 38242 times)

Tactical Nuke · February 02, 2017, 12:16:28 AM

forget my ass here we go

Quote from: Sources

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley/index.html

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Protesters-storm-Milo-Yiannopoulos-event-at-UC-10901829.php

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protests-violence-prompts-uc-berkeley-cancel-milo-yiannopoulos-event-n715711

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Violent protests erupted at UC Berkeley on Wednesday night hours before right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak.

Black-clad protesters could be seen throwing fireworks at police and at the student union center on the Berkeley campus where the Breitbart editor's event was to be held. They were also seen tearing down metal barriers, smashing windows of the student center and setting a fire outside the building.

The university estimated that more than 1,500 protesters were gathered outside the student center. At least one person was injured, according to the university, although it was not immediately clear whether the individual was a protester, staff member or a bystander.

Administrators decided to cancel the event about two hours before Yiannopoulos' speech. UC Berkeley said it removed him from campus "amid the violence and destruction of property and out of concern for public safety."

Some highlights:
Gasoline-powered light set on fire
Belligerents throw fireworks at Student Union Center, police
Female MILO supporter pepper-sprayed by rioters during interview

Milo Yiannopoulos comments on the riots (warning: highly political)

forgetin' /discuss

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Spaceguy · February 02, 2017, 12:17:23 AM

Jesus forget

Nonnel · February 02, 2017, 12:17:35 AM

milo's an ass but i doubt he deserves all this

Insert Name Here� · February 02, 2017, 12:21:17 AM

Quote from: Spaceguy on February 02, 2017, 12:17:23 AM

Jesus forget

SeventhSandwich · February 02, 2017, 12:24:03 AM

it's all so dumb

Awesomebread� · February 02, 2017, 12:25:52 AM

i apologize for living under a rock but who is milo yiannopoulos?

The Resonte! · February 02, 2017, 12:26:59 AM

someone with an uh interesting last name thats who

IkeTheGeneric · February 02, 2017, 12:28:13 AM

Quote from: Awesomebread� on February 02, 2017, 12:25:52 AM

i apologize for living under a rock but who is milo yiannopoulos?

openly gay republican rabble-rouser who talks really loudly and has gained a rather outspokenly hostile cult following

Bisjac · February 02, 2017, 12:29:38 AM

heh heh, they destroyed the local starbucks.

XD

Tactical Nuke · February 02, 2017, 12:32:34 AM

for the record, what Milo said about Bucknell shaming it's biggest donor for voting Annoying Orange is true
I've seen it with my own eyes

and for those of you who think that's kind of a trivial thing to be reported on, know that President Bravman will send out an email to all of us immediately decrying "swastikas carved into public bathroom stalls" and "anti-Islamic posters being hung around the campus"
but not this
he didn't even have anything to say about it, even after sending us an email the night of the election urging Bucknellians that "we must reaffirm our commitment to engaging with one another based on a foundation of mutual respect and genuine community. Absent that, our mission cannot be fulfilled."

Tactical Nuke · February 02, 2017, 12:33:43 AM

Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on February 02, 2017, 12:28:13 AM

openly gay republican rabble-rouser who talks really loudly and has gained a rather outspokenly hostile cult following

he's held up as one of the figureheads of the alt-right despite his admittance that he does not identify with them, nor with the Republican party

SeventhSandwich · February 02, 2017, 12:36:24 AM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 02, 2017, 12:33:43 AM

he's held up as one of the figureheads of the alt-right despite his admittance that he does not identify with them, nor with the Republican party

(it's cause he's already registered as a national socialist)

Tactical Nuke · February 02, 2017, 12:38:01 AM

Quote from: SeventhSandwich on February 02, 2017, 12:36:24 AM

(it's cause he's already registered as a national socialist)

lol ok 7th

auzman466 · February 02, 2017, 12:38:10 AM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on February 02, 2017, 12:33:43 AM

he's held up as one of the figureheads of the alt-right despite his admittance that he does not identify with them, nor with the Republican party

yes, sadly
the alt-right is almost as forgeted as the regressive left

SWAT One · February 02, 2017, 12:56:51 AM

Quote from: Nonnel on February 02, 2017, 12:17:35 AM

milo's an ass but i doubt he deserves all this

Pretty much this.

I may have a more left-wing view on politics, but this stuff grinds my gears. Not because it make me look bad by association, but because I honestly expected more out of the American people. The dignity of American higher education is dead when vulgar things like this happen.