Turning Point USA student group attacked at California university campus: 'What mostly peaceful looks like'

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A radical of blimpish students were assaulted and had their instrumentality destroyed connected Thursday erstwhile masked protesters attacked them earlier an lawsuit connected a California assemblage campus.

Turning Point USA astatine UC Davis, a registered pupil organization, was hosting a "Prove maine Wrong" lawsuit with Brandon Tatum, a impermanent speaker, erstwhile protesters destroyed camera gear, a tent, lawsuit signage, flipped tables, and assaulted radical staff, Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk, wrote connected X.

"While our radical were nether attack, constabulary stood speech and did nothing," helium wrote. "Our squad is understandably shaken up, but they guarantee maine they volition not backmost down."

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Protesters violently disrupt blimpish pupil lawsuit astatine California university

Protesters violently disrupted a blimpish pupil lawsuit astatine the University of California, Davis connected Thursday. (Turning Point USA )

In a connection to Fox News Digital, the assemblage said protesters disrupted the lawsuit astatine Memorial Union Quad by confronting members of the pupil enactment and others.

"The UC Davis Police Department took 1 study of an assault," the schoolhouse said. "No 1 requested aesculapian aid. The lawsuit with the impermanent talker took spot connected docket and was completed without further incident. The assemblage protected the escaped code rights of the field assemblage passim the event."

Protesters seen astatine the University of California, Davis. (Turning Point USA )

The pupil radical invited Tatum, a erstwhile constabulary serviceman known for his fashionable YouTube Channel, to talk connected the field astatine 1 p.m. An hr earlier the lawsuit began, astir 30 radical approached the structure and array staffed by supporters of the event.

One demonstrator struck idiosyncratic who approached the array with a compartment phone, the schoolhouse said. Other demonstrators pulled down the structure and engaged successful shoving with those staffing the structure and others nearby. The protesters near the country earlier returning minutes aboriginal and trying to region a tent.

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The UC Davis logo with a shot crippled and motorcycle riders successful the background. University of California astatine Davis. Davis, California. Taken February 2, 2015. (Getty Images)

No 1 has been arrested.

Videos of the chaos posted online amusement protesters holding a ample banner with "ACAB," an acronym for "All Cops Are Bastards," arsenic they approached the lawsuit area.

Kirk criticized the university, which helium called the "most militant schoolhouse successful the country, with the largest Antifa presence."

"When I spoke determination successful March of 2023, Antifa ft soldiers vandalized the school, smashed windows and fought the police," helium said. "What we person is simply a pattern, with nary signs of improvement."

Reacting to the quality of the incident, Elon Musk wrote connected X that "the near is the enactment of unit & hate."

Charlie Kirk speaks during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee successful July 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)

A video posted by Tatum online shows him defending himself arsenic the protesters appeared to destruct a TPUSA structure and tables.

"This is what mostly peaceful looks like," helium wrote.

Kirk called for the apprehension of those progressive and that failing to bash truthful volition effect successful "radical anarchists" resorting to "more and much unit if they deliberation doing truthful volition halt conservatives from speaking."