adminWhat happened on November 10, 2025, at the University of California, Berkeley was nothing short of an abomination — a politically motivated mob attempting to shut down free speech on one of America’s most iconic campuses. Turning Point USA students and supporters showed up to exercise their First Amendment rights and were met with smoke, chaos, and violence outside the auditorium.
Video from the scene shows masked agitators throwing objects, lighting flares, and trying to force their way through police barricades while attendees were rushed inside for safety. Organizers reported that tear gas, fireworks, and glass bottles were used against both police and peaceful attendees as the mob sought to intimidate anyone who dared to hear conservative voices.
The pictures and footage are grotesque: a Second Amendment supporter and other attendees bloodied, scuffles breaking out, and multiple arrests as law enforcement tried to restore order. Authorities later charged at least one protester in an assault and robbery incident that erupted amid the melee, underscoring that this wasn’t a peaceful demonstration but criminal behavior.
Inside Zellerbach Hall the show went on — because brave students refused to be cowed — while outside anarchists and radical groups apparently coordinated to make Berkeley look like a war zone. TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet called the scene an “abomination,” and rightly demanded accountability for the thugs who tried to turn a campus into a combat zone.
This ugly attack came just two months after the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, which already left conservative students and activists reeling. The targeting of a memorial-style tour stop at a major university so soon after that national tragedy shows a dangerous pattern: the left’s street wing feels empowered to silence and even harm political opponents.
Federal authorities are finally stepping in. The Department of Justice has opened a probe and the Civil Rights Division has demanded preservation of records from UC Berkeley as prosecutors evaluate whether federal civil-rights or conspiracy statutes were violated. That intervention is overdue; local administrators and campus police must not be allowed to play both sides while free speech dies on their watch.
Make no mistake: universities that cultivate and tolerate this lawlessness should be held to account. Berkeley’s leaders owe students and taxpayers a full accounting for how barricades and “free speech plazas” were arranged in a way that invited chaos instead of prevented it, and they must answer for any failure to protect attendees.
Americans who love liberty should be furious but focused: demand prosecutions for those who committed violence, insist on federal oversight where campuses fail, and support student groups that refuse to let mobs win. Our colleges must be places of debate, not battlegrounds, and conservatives will not be silenced by intimidation or lawlessness.
