Posted on 09/09/2016 5:44:11 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Student protesters bum-rushed a Berkeley College Republicans’ tabling event Wednesday and tried to abscond with their life-size Donald Trump cardboard cut out.
“A group of protesters with a megaphone confronted our table and proceeded to snatch and attempt to rip up our Donald Trump cut-out,” Jose Diaz, president of Berkeley College Republicans, said in a statement to The College Fix.
According to Diaz: “I jumped up and grabbed the hands of a protestor to prevent him from [taking the Trump cut out]. The group of protestors then circled us and began yelling slurs at us in reference to Donald Trump.”
“Slurs such as racists, bigots, and ‘pieces of sh**’ was yelled out by the protestors,” Diaz added. “They demanded that the cut-out be removed due to the perceived offensive nature that it represents towards them. At the same time of this confrontation, one of our members attempting to film the incident was physically harassed by one of the protestors and had his phone taken.”
Police arrived shortly thereafter to take statements and incident reports, as well as to stay on scene to keep the peace, according to the Berkeley College Republicans.
Photos posted to the group’s Facebook page show a campus police officer standing nearby the tabling and a somewhat damaged Trump cut out that remained standing after the scuffle. The Berkeley GOP said their members refuse to be intimidated, despite the incident.
“I will continue to remain steadfast in exercising our right to free speech,” Diaz said. “My goal as president of the Berkeley College Republicans is to inspire and encourage others who sometimes feel ostracized here at UC Berkeley to do the same.”
Claire Chiara, executive director of the group, told The College Fix the incident happened on the same day CNN published a special report on how Berkeley College Republicans are constantly attacked and criticized on a campus famed for being the birthplace of the free speech movement.
A short video of the incident shows a protester grabbing the Trump cut out as a College Republican stops them. A crowd closely surrounds the altercation, and as another College Republican records the incident on his cell phone, his device is roughly batted down by another apparent student protester.
“The UC Berkeley campus community has a universal intolerance of Republican, conservative, or right-leaning views,” Chiara told The Fix.
“[A]ny opinions differing from the majority’s views are condemned and ignored by professors, administrators, and students alike,” she said. “The College Republicans serve not only as a school club, but also as the guarantors of intellectual discourse and ideological debate, tenets of a university education.”
Why would any Conservative choose to give Berzerkley their money?
Some kids may be attending on Scholarship status, especially those in A.I. fields or engineering. It’s very expensive. Many of these students are first generation Americans.
They only look so closely at who’s progressive and what that may imply.
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Same first thought. Why would anyone brighter than room temperature be in that state, let alone piss away money on Berkley? It’s a sickening joke.
At some point the Pinkos are going to get a harsh lesson on how what goes around, comes around.
My whackjob uncle went there. Beserkeley politics infected the whole family, down to the grandkids.
Visited them 2 or 3 yrs ago. That’s it.
They don’t care to associate with me and I feel the same way about them.
Nazi street punks.
Horst Wessel would be pround.
Bums hit hardest!
Learn how to rumble, Mr. Diaz.
Girly, bed-wetting leftists will run away when confronted by fists. All the time, everytime. Guaranteed.
We cannot continue to run away. It gives the field to the enemy.
We need to fight back, and we are starting to do so.
Use their own methods against them.
...One of our members was physically harassed by one of the protestors and had his phone taken...
Sounds like a Michael Brown style strong armed robbery, doesn’t it?
Bezerkeley remains crazy. Decade after decade. Many super- smart people are afraid to study or teach there, so all the nuts inflict a lot of harm. -— it’s a real shame. Should at least be taken off the taxpayers’ backs now. Long overdue
Democrats are fascists. Simple as that! They feel they should control everything - who gets to buy what, where you can work, what you can say, what you can sell, how you can sell it, who you can interact with, how you interact with them.
Totalitarian fascists.
“Man up, conservatives, these twerps are cowards at heart.”
10-4, hinckley buzzard. Nothing shuts up a leftist quicker than slamming him to the floor.
Have we as a nation, forgot the pugilistic arts? Or is it just lack of will?
Ah, tolerance!/s
I need to get one of those life-size Donald Trump cardboard cut outs for our GOP campaign HQ
Time to form the Republican Berkeley Baseball Team and “play ball”.
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