DOJ launches investigation into UC Berkeley unrest outside Turning Point USA event

The Department of Justice has launched an probe into unrest that unfolded extracurricular a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine University of California, Berkeley connected Monday.

"Mob battle and thuggish intimidation of attendees exercising their First Amendment rights are unacceptable," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon wrote successful a station announcing the probe connected X.

The ambiance was tense arsenic left-wing agitators swarmed Zellerbach Hall wherever the event, which was the past halt connected the "This is the Turning Point" tour, was held.

Attendees were forced to navigate a mob of hostile agitators successful bid to participate and exit the event, portion constabulary held backmost a screaming and sometimes convulsive mob. 

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The lawsuit featured histrion Rob Schneider and writer Frank Turek, a Christian mentor of the organization's precocious founder, Charlie Kirk.

"The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division has precocious go alert of concerning incidents occurring connected your field astatine the University of California (UC), Berkeley connected oregon astir November 10, 2025," said a missive from Dhillon addressed to the University of California Board of Regents. 

"Our bureau antecedently opened investigations of the University of California System for imaginable violations of Title VI and Title VII based connected different events. We volition find whether the events of November 10 should besides beryllium included successful those investigations," according to the letter. "We are besides determining whether caller events supply a ground for further probe of violations of national rights, including, without limitation, violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution."

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The DOJ has demanded that the schoolhouse sphere each records related to information and field mentation for the Turning Point event. 

GIF shows far-left agitators astatine a UC Berkeley barricade extracurricular a TPUSA lawsuit connected November 10, 2025. (Fox News Digital)

In a lengthy connection provided to Fox News Digital, UC Berkeley powerfully condemned each unit and threats that whitethorn chill state of speech. It besides said it volition cooperate with the national investigation. 

"The University is conducting a afloat probe and intends to afloat cooperate with and assist any 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," the connection said. "UC Berkeley volition instrumentality each due steps  to safeguard the close of each subordinate of our assemblage to talk and assemble freely."

The schoolhouse noted that contempt the chaos outside, the Turning Point event, which it says garnered much than 900 attendees, was uninterrupted. 

At slightest 8 radical were arrested during the event. 

In a bloody viral incidental conscionable extracurricular the campus, a antheral wearing a "FREEDOM" T-shirt, akin to the 1 Kirk was wearing erstwhile helium was assassinated, was beaten by different man. 

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Jihad Dphrepaulezz, 25, was arrested and charged with robbery and artillery aft stealing the victim's concatenation and brawling with him successful the street, according to Berkeley police. 

Campus constabulary besides confirmed 2 arrests during the chaos extracurricular the event. 

Christopher Joseph Benton, 48, who is unaffiliated with the school, was arrested for trespassing, resisting oregon obstructing an serviceman and being unlawfully contiguous connected campus, each misdemeanors. 

Jay Eduardo Maytorena, 22, listed arsenic a existent oregon erstwhile student, was arrested for trespassing and resisting oregon obstructing an officer. 

People tally arsenic protesters and constabulary look disconnected extracurricular a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine the University of California, Berkeley connected Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, successful Berkeley, Calif. (Noah Berger/AP)

Four Berkeley students were arrested by UC Berkeley constabulary aboriginal Monday greeting connected felony vandalism charges related to hanging an anti-Turning Point show successful a forbidden determination connected campus. 

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On Tuesday afternoon, the schoolhouse besides told Fox News Digital that a 45-year-old antheral was struck successful the caput with a solid vessel oregon jar. He suffered a laceration connected his caput and was transported to the infirmary for treatment. 

It is unclear whether anyone has been arrested successful that incident. 

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