{"id":55888,"date":"2025-11-12T01:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/justice-department-says-its-investigating-violent-riots-at-uc-berkeley-turning-point-usa-event\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T01:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T01:02:18","slug":"justice-department-says-its-investigating-violent-riots-at-uc-berkeley-turning-point-usa-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/justice-department-says-its-investigating-violent-riots-at-uc-berkeley-turning-point-usa-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department says it&#8217;s investigating &#8220;violent riots&#8221; at UC Berkeley Turning Point USA event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Justice Department is investigating protests outside of a Turning Point USA event on the University of California, Berkeley&#8217;s campus, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday, which she suggested was part of President Trump&#8217;s crackdown on the antifa movement.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGPamBondi\/status\/1988339354754769099?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">post on X<\/a> that the &#8220;violent riots&#8221; Monday evening at the California school are under investigation by the FBI&#8217;s Joint Terrorism Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>The Turning Point USA event came two months after the group&#8217;s founder, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was killed on a Utah college campus. The <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/sold-out-turning-point-usa-event-at-uc-berkeley-draws-protests\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sold-out event<\/a><\/span> was the final stop on a recent national college campus tour that the group has hosted since Kirk&#8217;s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, dozens of mostly peaceful protestors gathered near the Turning Point event on the university&#8217;s campus, and scuffles broke out between police and some protestors, videos of the demonstrations show. At one point, somebody threw smoke bombs, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/sold-out-turning-point-usa-event-at-uc-berkeley-draws-protests\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News Bay Area<\/a><\/span> reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Berkeley Police Department, two men were arrested on suspicion of fighting in public. One of those individuals was released after officers determined that a 25-year old man had stolen his chain and he was attempting to get it back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two other individuals were arrested by campus police for failing to comply with directions, a university spokesman said. One was a current student and the other had no affiliation with the university, according to a spokesperson. One 45-year-old male attending the event was hit by a glass bottle and transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/12\/bdbc26e0-a682-4409-88a9-5462ee248380\/thumbnail\/620x414\/ee44cf7bab6e39d5d10e8aa10145cbb1\/ap25315185361688.jpg#\" alt=\"Turning Point California \" height=\"414\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/12\/bdbc26e0-a682-4409-88a9-5462ee248380\/thumbnail\/620x414\/ee44cf7bab6e39d5d10e8aa10145cbb1\/ap25315185361688.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/12\/bdbc26e0-a682-4409-88a9-5462ee248380\/thumbnail\/1240x828\/840439e67ba6fe8c37668075048bd7e9\/ap25315185361688.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Protesters yell at people exiting a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Godofredo V\u00e1squez \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a statement, UC Berkeley said the school &#8220;is conducting a full investigation&#8221; and will cooperate with federal authorities to &#8220;identify the outside agitators responsible for attempting to disrupt last night&#8217;s TPUSA event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no place at UC Berkeley for attempts to use violence or intimidation to prevent lawful expression or chill free speech,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time an event featuring conservative speakers has sparked protests on the Berkeley campus. <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/milo-yiannopoulos-uc-berkeley-event-canceled-after-violent-protests\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">In 2017<\/a><\/span>, a planned speech by right-wing activist Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled after hundreds of protesters gathered and lit fires and damaged property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department, wrote on X that her division will investigate &#8220;several issues of serious concern regarding campus and the local security&#8221; on the school&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi referenced antifa in her X post announcing the federal government&#8217;s Berkeley investigation, writing: &#8220;Antifa is an existential threat to our nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In September, Mr. Trump signed an <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-antifa-executive-order-domestic-terrorist-organization\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">executive order<\/a><\/span> labeling antifa as a &#8220;domestic terrorist organization&#8221; and directed the federal government to use &#8220;all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle&#8221; illegal operations conducted by antifa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The label antifa, short for anti-fascist, is widely used to describe far-left and anarchist individuals, though the Congressional Research Service has described antifa as &#8220;decentralized&#8221; and without a &#8220;unifying organizational structure or detailed ideology.&#8221; Instead, the group wrote, antifa is a broadly defined movement that believes in anarchism, socialism, and communism.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, for the first time ever, the Justice Department <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/two-men-involved-in-ice-attack-in-north-texas-officially-charged-and-linked-to-antifa-terrorism\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">charged two Texas men<\/a><\/span> with allegedly providing material support to antifa, referring to their involvement in a violent July 4th attack at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado that injured a federal officer. The Justice Department alleged that the pair were part of an &#8220;Antifa cell&#8221; that plotted the attack with guns and explosives.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump&#8217;s vow to crack down on antifa <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-designating-antifa-terrorist-organization\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">has drawn some skepticism<\/a><\/span> from legal experts, who note that domestic terrorism isn&#8217;t a chargeable offense under federal law.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/melissa-quinn\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Melissa  Quinn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 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