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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Is there a Plan B on the menu for Berkeley?

In a Twitter thread posted Monday, conservative speaker and writer Ben Shapiro called for everyone attending his event to remain nonviolent and demanded that the Berkeley Police Department “do their jobs” to stop any violence from breaking out. Shapiro, who is scheduled to speak in Zellerbach Hall on Sept. 14, stated during a Fox News interview Friday that he anticipates Antifa will come to his event, and he asked that people not come to his event “ready to do violence in defense of my free speech.” He added that protecting free speech was the job of campus police exclusively, since the Young America’s Foundation had already paid the almost $16,000 security fee, which he called unfair. The Berkeley College Republicans have hosted Ben Shapiro in the past, inviting him to speak on campus in April 2016 to no backlash...

Full story at http://www.dailycal.org/2017/08/29/conservative-speaker-ben-shapiro-asks/

It might be noted that the next Regents meeting (at UC-San Diego - far from the Shapiro event) is on September 13-14.

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