{"id":292876,"date":"2017-02-02T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/violent-protests-cancel-pro-trump-editors-speech-in-uc-berkley\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T09:59:03","slug":"violent-protests-cancel-pro-trump-editors-speech-in-uc-berkley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/violent-protests-cancel-pro-trump-editors-speech-in-uc-berkley\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent protests cancel pro-Trump editor\u2019s speech in UC Berkley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Hurling smoke bombs and breaking windows, the students even sparked a huge bonfire and showed their determination to disrupt the event by chanting \u201cshut him down\u201d and \u201cHate Speech Is Not Free Speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170202\/7eaf6424-5ca2-4051-8818-3257f9d2597e.jpg\"\/><figcaption>A man looks at graffiti during a protest in Berkeley, California on February 1, 2017. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis was a group of agitators who were masked up, throwing rocks, commercial grade fireworks and Molotov cocktails at officers,\u201d UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennet said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170202\/5466b326-88c7-4b4a-9b20-66b672070f3e.jpg\"\/><figcaption>A man pulls a piece of metal out of a window as a flare burns inside a Wells Fargo Bank in Berkeley, California, February, 1, 2017. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/02\/508798\/UC-Berkley-Trump-Yiannopoulos-protest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":292877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}