"Footage from a dustup, in which student protesters were chanting "Nazis go home!" and "Fuck you, fascists!" at one guy selling Jesus-y t-shirts which was f0llowed by someone tossing some t-shirts to the ground and then getting in a scuffle with the t-shirt guy that left his face bloodied made the rounds of conservative social media, with the mostly unmasked student protesters being disingenuously labeled "Antifa.""
"Tweeting about the incident Tuesday, longtime California Republican firebrand Harmeet Dhillon, who is now Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Department of Justice, writes, "The @CivilRights 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." We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case."
A Monday protest at UC Berkeley centered on a Turning Point USA roadshow memorializing Charlie Kirk and produced one fistfight and four arrests. Video shows student protesters chanting confrontational slogans at a vendor selling religious-themed t-shirts, followed by someone tossing shirts to the ground and a scuffle that left the vendor bloodied. The on-campus Turning Point event proceeded without incident. Conservative outlets and social media amplified the footage, applying labels like "Antifa" and using sensational terms such as "bloody chaos." The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division signaled an investigation and a DOJ official publicly raised security concerns.
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