California woman charged with disrupting April Turning Point USA event on a college campus

A California pistillate has been charged with disrupting a Turning Point USA lawsuit connected a assemblage field earlier this twelvemonth that went viral arsenic protesters clashed with a blimpish speaker. 

Joanna Clara Sodke, 22, allegedly participated successful the protestation astatine the University of California, Davis April 3 astatine an lawsuit featuring commentator Brandon Tatum. 

Tatum was astatine the "Prove maine Wrong" lawsuit erstwhile protesters destroyed camera gear, a structure and lawsuit signage and flipped tables and assaulted radical staff, Turning Point USA said. 

INSIDE THE CHAOS OF BLOODY BERKELEY AS PROTESTERS GO WILD DURING TURNING POINT USA EVENT

Protesters violently disrupt a blimpish pupil lawsuit astatine a California university (Turning Point USA )

The chaos that unfolded nationwide drew attention, including from Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated successful September portion astatine a Utah assemblage campus. 

Sodke was charged with 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate a riot and 1 number of battery.

She was scheduled to beryllium arraigned Friday day successful Yolo Superior Court, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig’s bureau said successful a statement.

Sodke graduated from UC Davis successful 2024 with a grade successful history, The Sacramento Bee reported. Videos from the incidental showed a radical of masked protesters pulling down a TPUSA structure and shoving lawsuit organizers. 

UC BERKELEY CHAOS OUTSIDE TURNING POINT GATHERING ENDS IN MULTIPLE ARRESTS AS CONSERVATIVE EVENT RUNS SMOOTHLY

Protesters violently disrupted a Turning Point USA lawsuit successful April astatine the University of California, Davis. A pistillate who graduated from the schoolhouse has been charged for her alleged relation successful the protest, authorities said.  (Turning Point USA )

The charges were announced days aft a protestation extracurricular a TPUSA lawsuit astatine the UC Berkeley campus. Four Berkeley students were arrested by UC Berkeley constabulary aboriginal Monday greeting connected felony vandalism charges.

The event, arsenic good arsenic the 1 from April, reignited debates implicit escaped code connected assemblage campuses and attacks against blimpish speakers. 

Police officers abstracted 2 men extracurricular a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine the University of California, Berkeley, Nov. 10, 2025, successful Berkeley, Calif.  (AP)

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"There is nary spot astatine UC Berkeley for attempts to usage unit oregon intimidation to forestall lawful look oregon chill escaped speech," a UC Berkeley connection said. "The University is conducting a afloat probe and intends to afloat cooperate with and assistance immoderate national investigations and the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force to place the extracurricular agitators liable for attempting to disrupt past night’s TPUSA event.