UC Davis chancellor says violent attack on student conservative group 'disappointing and embarrassing'

The chancellor of the University of California, Davis field said an probe was being opened into a convulsive onslaught by masked protesters connected an lawsuit hosted by a pupil blimpish radical connected Thursday.

Gary May connected Friday called the onslaught connected a "Prove maine Wrong" lawsuit hosted by Turning Point USA astatine UC Davis, a registered pupil organization, "disappointing and embarrassing."

"Let maine beryllium clear: Those who were attacked did thing but explicit themselves, successful a non-violent manner," May said. "They were peacefully expressing their views — arsenic is their close — and they should beryllium capable to bash truthful without fear, intimidation oregon violence."

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

May said it remains unclear whether the masked perpetrators were extracurricular agitators oregon individuals affiliated with the university. Regardless, steps would beryllium taken to clasp them responsible, helium said. 

"To guarantee a thorough and impartial knowing of what occurred, we are initiating a afloat autarkic reappraisal of the incident," helium said. "If it is determined that immoderate UC Davis students oregon employees were progressive successful this vicious attack, they volition look disciplinary enactment successful accordance with assemblage disciplinary policies. Individuals whitethorn besides beryllium held criminally liable done the justness system."

Thursday's lawsuit was slated to diagnostic impermanent talker Brandon Tatum, a erstwhile constabulary serviceman known for his fashionable YouTube Channel wherever helium supports blimpish viewpoints. However, astir an hr earlier it began, astir 30 radical approached a structure and array staffed by supporters of the event.

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

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.

Turning Point USA, the umbrella enactment which advocates for blimpish principles astatine colleges and universities, said instrumentality was destroyed, arsenic good arsenic signage and tables.

Staffers of the lawsuit were besides assaulted, the radical said. No 1 was arrested, the schoolhouse said Thursday. 

Turning Point laminitis and CEO Charlie Kirk said constabulary officers stood by arsenic the unit occurred. He noted that it wasn't the archetypal clip convulsive protesters person targeted his enactment astatine the university. 

Charlie Kirk speaks during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024. (Reuters)

"UC Davis is astir apt the astir militant schoolhouse successful the country, with the largest Antifa presence," Kirk wrote connected X. "When I spoke determination successful March of 2023, Antifa ft soldiers vandalized the school, smashed windows and fought the police. What we person is simply a pattern, with nary signs of improvement."

May called the protesters' actions "appalling and wholly unacceptable." 

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"There is zero tolerance for unit connected our campuses — zero," helium said. "We are firmly committed to supporting escaped look and unfastened dialog connected our campus. That committedness does not — and volition ne'er — widen to acts of unit oregon intimidation."