"The Charlie Kirk traveling memorial show had its stop in Berkeley Monday night, and one guy hawking Jesus t-shirts got bloodied up in a lone fistfight, though it was otherwise a long night of garden-variety Berkeley rabble-rousing. We raised the alarm last week that the Charlie Kirk homage Turning Point USA Tour was coming to Berkeley Monday night, the last stop on the tour, and the first California stop since Kirk was shot and killed on an Utah college campus in September."
"And given Kirk's legacy of promoting right-wing violence and bigotry, there were of course flyers posted around the UC Berkeley campus telling people to show up and raise heck in protest of the event. Some of them even got an early start. The UC Berkeley student newspaper Daily Cal reports that four UC Berkeley students were arrested for vandalism early Monday morning, for the crime of attempting to hang a giant cardboard insect on a gate?"
"Though the Turning Point rally itself inside Zellerbach Hall was not a particularly star-studded event, merely featuring the likes of washed-up comic Rob Schneider, and some other guy who is even less famous than Rob Schneider. But once the rally was actually getting started, KPIX reports there was a fistfight between a protester and a Charlie Kirk supporter outside of the auditorium before the program."
A Turning Point USA stop honoring Charlie Kirk drew about 1,900 ticket buyers and roughly the same number of protesters in Berkeley. Flyers using Kirk quotes and calls to protest circulated across UC Berkeley, and four students were arrested early for attempting to hang a giant cardboard insect on a gate. The indoor rally featured minor celebrity appearances but lacked major figures. Outside the auditorium a lone fistfight broke out between a protester and a Kirk supporter, and footage showed reporters and protesters wandering into stalled traffic. Authorities confirmed multiple arrests and organizers reported strong ticket sales.
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