Justice Department says it’s investigating “violent riots” at UC Berkeley Turning Point USA event

The Justice Division is investigating protests exterior of a Turning Level USA occasion on the College of California, Berkeley’s campus, Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi stated Tuesday, which she instructed was a part of President Trump’s crackdown on the antifa motion.

Bondi wrote in a publish on X that the “violent riots” Monday night on the California faculty are underneath investigation by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Activity Pressure.

The Turning Level USA occasion got here two months after the group’s founder, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was killed on a Utah faculty campus. The sold-out occasion was the ultimate cease on a latest nationwide faculty campus tour that the group has hosted since Kirk’s demise. 

On Monday evening, dozens of principally peaceable protestors gathered close to the Turning Level occasion on the college’s campus, and scuffles broke out between police and a few protestors, movies of the demonstrations present. At one level, anyone threw smoke bombs, CBS Information Bay Space reported.

In keeping with an announcement from the Berkeley Police Division, two males had been arrested on suspicion of preventing in public. A kind of people was launched after officers decided {that a} 25-year previous man had stolen his chain and he was making an attempt to get it again. 

Two different people had been arrested by campus police for failing to adjust to instructions, a college spokesman stated. One was a present pupil and the opposite had no affiliation with the college, based on a spokesperson. One 45-year-old male attending the occasion was hit by a glass bottle and transported to the hospital.