Violent protests have forced University of California at Berkeley to call off a speech by an editor of Breitbart, a news agency that has close ties with President Donald Trump.
The violence broke out when more than 1,500 protesters gathered outside a venue where Milo Yiannopoulos was slated to address an event on Wednesday.
Hurling smoke bombs and breaking windows, the students even sparked a huge bonfire and showed their determination to disrupt the event by chanting “shut him down” and “Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech.”
“This was a group of agitators who were masked up, throwing rocks, commercial grade fireworks and Molotov cocktails at officers,” UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennet said.
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