A violent, bloody brawl broke out outside the Turning Point USA finale event the night of November 10 at the University of California, Berkeley, where protesters, clad in black masks and keffiyehs, swarmed the hall's entrance, chanting “No Trump, No KKK, No fascist USA” and screaming obscenities at attendees, calling them “fascists.”
The chaos erupted on Bancroft Way ahead of the conservative group’s event at Zellerbach Hall, headlined by comedian Rob Schneider and Christian author Frank Turek, and held exactly two months after Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a Utah college campus, reports Berkeleyside.
Mikey McCoy, who had served as Kirk’s chief of staff, accused the protesters of being ANTIFA, an anti-fascist movement with no official leaders.
What started as a war of words erupted into violence when a masked protester tackled a man selling Kirk memorial “Freedom” shirts, sparking a flurry of punches as Berkeley police rushed in.
The fight exploded into a crush of bodies as onlookers screamed, “Get him!” and “Let him go!” while the vendor, red-faced and defiant, shouted, “I was gay until Charlie Kirk showed me the way!” before being detained.
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