Showing posts with label Milo Yiannopoulos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Milo Yiannopoulos. Show all posts

Thursday, February 02, 2017

Donald Trump Threatens to Cancel Berkeley Federal Funds After Riots Shut Down Milo Event


BREITBART.COM: President Donald Trump reacted to the massive rioting at UC-Berkeley in response to a scheduled campus speech by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos.

“If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view – NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” Trump wrote on Twitter early Thursday morning. News of the rioting made cable news last night as students smashed ATMs and bank windows, looted a Starbucks, beat Trump supporters, pepper sprayed innocent individuals, and set fires in the street. Others spray painted the words “Kill Trump” on storefronts. The speech was canceled by UC-Berkeley police as security failed. Yiannopoulos was evacuated from the area. » | Charlie Spiering | Thursday, February 2, 2017

Alt-right Speaker Cancelled as Berkeley Protests Erupt


Anti-fascist activists shoot fireworks at the University of California Berkeley on Wednesday, where the ‘alt-right’ Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos had been due to speak at a Republican students event. Yiannopoulos said the cancellation proved ‘the left is absolutely terrified of free speech and will do literally anything to shut it down’


Read the Guardian article here