Overview
- Videos showed scuffles and bloodied attendees as protests outside Zellerbach Hall escalated into fights, with police confirming at least two arrests for battery and some reports citing up to four total including vandalism.
- Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said her division will examine campus and local security responses and concerns about violent tactics used near the venue.
- Berkeley Police, campus officers and California Highway Patrol deployed in riot gear and formed barricades to keep crowds back while maintaining access to the event.
- Organizers said the indoor program with Rob Schneider and Frank Turek ran without disruption on the final stop of TPUSA’s tour held two months after founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
- Event backers blamed Antifa for the violence, protest organizers denied formal Antifa ties, and footage captured smoke devices, flares and taunts referencing Kirk’s killing as competing narratives spread online.