DOJ Investigating UC-Berkeley After ‘Violent Thugs’ Attack Turning Point Event
“The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA.”
Mike catalogued the violent left-wing riot outside the University of California-Berkeley on Monday.
BREAKING: ANTIFA protesters have rushed the entrance of tonight’s TPUSA event attempting to break down barriers.
Attendees were all rushed behind a police arrest and another anti-TPUSA protester has been arrested @TPUSA | @Savsays pic.twitter.com/xo8Mv0mFHj
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) November 11, 2025
UC Berkeley currently looks like a war zone.
An ANTIFA member just lit off a flare resulting in TPUSA event attendees being rushed inside.
A car then comes and starts backfiring visibly scaring multiple attendees who feared they were hearing gunshots. @TPUSA | @Savsays pic.twitter.com/u3mG8rJDSx
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) November 11, 2025
Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, announced an investigation into UC-Berkeley.
Dhillon has already taken on Berkeley. She represented the Berkeley College Republicans in 2017 when the students sued the school over a speech by Ann Coulter.
Dhillon wrote on X:
Berkeley:
@UCBerkeley and the City of Berkeley should expect some incoming @CivilRights correspondence. And more. In America, we do not allow citizens to be attacked by violent thugs and shrug and turn our backs. Been there, done that, not on our watch.
Berkeley: @UCBerkeley and the City of Berkeley should expect some incoming @CivilRights correspondence. And more. In America, we do not allow citizens to be attacked by violent thugs and shrug and turn our backs. Been there, done that, not on our watch.
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) November 11, 2025
Dhillon followed up:
We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case.
The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA.
We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case.
The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA. https://t.co/aN7JzouXwl
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) November 11, 2025
Riot police had to go to the school after Antifa and other far-left extremists issued threats over the Turning Point USA event.
Andy Ngo said the violent Antifa group “By Any Means Necessary” helped organize the riot.
The thugs surrounded the building while yelling, “Fascists out of Berkeley!”
I didn’t realize these people were staring in a mirror!
One extremist stole a conservative male’s necklace and punched him twice in the face. As he stood there with a bloody face, the rioters mocked him for being white.
UC Berkeley (Nov. 10) — A far-left extremist stole a conservative man's necklace & then punched him repeatedly in the face when he tried to take it back outside the TPUSA event. The victim was bloodied, and the leftists racially mocked him for being white.pic.twitter.com/n5aaiU75mG
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) November 11, 2025
One attendee said the QR code “didn’t register,” noting how no one could give them a straight answer on the problem.
She said the violent thugs “screamed, vandalized, threw paint,” and launched glass bottles and cups at other attendees.
“This was not [a] ‘peaceful protest,'” she wrote on X. “It was intimidation. I have never seen anything like it before. ”
Tonight at UC Berkeley, we arrived under a confirmed invite and presented our QR code at the entrance. Despite following every instruction, we were denied entry. The QR code “didn’t register,” which conveniently aligned with the administration’s sudden confusion about our access.… pic.twitter.com/EVzgrRTA6A
— Rush (@rushbhatia) November 11, 2025
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Bring back billy clubs. There rioters are already senseless. I’m sure a good beating wouldn’t cause them to lose any IQ points.
Love me some pain compliance.
Are these really students? Looking at the crowd they appear to be hired illegals.
Breaks my heart. I am old enough to remember when free speech movement started at Berkeley in the early sixties. Rich leftist kids from NYC were applying to the school to be part of the movement. Now similar leftist kids are the Berkeley fascists who are leading the anti free speech movement.
Let me be clear. These violent anti free speech fascists must be crushed until free speech is celebrated without violence.
In the sixties, the rich leftists were promoting only free leftist speech. Nothing has changed.
Like everything left, the name is deception.
The Free Speech movement in Berkeley was intended to allow leftists to ‘speak freely’ without refutation –not to ensure the free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment.
It’s purpose was to END free speech in favor of leftist controlled speech.
It succeeded and is still doing so.
The fact that so many think that the Free Speech Movement supported free speech is proof of this.
Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization, therefore anyone affiliated with Antifa is therefore a domestic terrorist.
If I were the AG, I would move heaven and earth to make excruciatingly painful examples of these snot-nosed little brats by permanently exiling them to a very small cell at Guantanamo Bay Cuba with the other terrorists.
Pain is a very strong motivator. Even a roundworm turns away from pain.
The problem is the details. Antifa operates for the most part as a decentralized, cell based movement of like minded individuals. There’s no identifiable ‘leadership’ and without ‘leadership’ there’s no ‘organization’ which presents a real obstacle in prosecution. Then there’s the issue that ‘domestic terror org’ is not a legal designation, though I’d argue Antifa is not domestic but international in scope which creates other potentially viable paths to explore in breaking them. Congress could create a statute to criminalize the tactics Antifa uses to not quite ‘organize’ but always seem to show up together at a pre-planned time/place with a coordinated agenda.
That said we aren’t using enough tools and tactics in surveillance, monitoring, arresting and searching electronic devices to ID an organizational overlay. Someone is printing flyers. Someone is creating web content. Someone is communicating with ‘like minded individuals’ to give time/place to show up. Someone is buying supplies, someone is storing and distributing supplies, someone is providing transportation. Someone is creating a bail fund, others are depositing funds, hiring legal defense and somebody makes the call to disburse those funds.
There’s plenty of ways to get enough probable cause for warrants and arrests. I suspect these guys ain’t as disciplined across the board in maintaining separation and covering their tracks as some would have us believe. Heck use the Federal drug schedule statutes….especially in CA, WA and elsewhere that States have decriminalized weed…the Federal Government hasn’t and can always choose to enforce Federal laws. Again there’s plenty of so far unexplored options to break Antifa. RICO is one. Civil rights charges is another. Go after the Universities and Municipalities who fail to provide ‘equal protection’ and continue to coddle Antifa allowing them to run wild. Where locals allow establishment of ‘no go’ zones or allow hecklers veto harassment and that’s a one sided affair take them to court. If lefty Judges and jurisdictions want to establish a nullification precedent for this behavior by leftists in Blue areas …no whining if right wing does the same in Red areas. It would be a shame if that happened to lefty groups like ACLU or SPLC or Sierra Club or whatever was that day’s chosen group to receive a fiery but mostly peaceful protest.
Point well taken. I therefore refer you to ztakddot’s comment above on billyclubs.
“Then there’s the issue that ‘domestic terror org’ is not a legal designation, though I’d argue Antifa is not domestic but international in scope”
Gee, we all heard Trump, and at least two of his cabinet deputies, agree on video to renominate Antifa as an international terrorist organization. Whatever happened to that? Did it ever happen?
The scope of its activities is not what matters. It has to be a foreign organization. Antifa isn’t even an organization at all, let alone a foreign one. I haven’t found an authoritative definition of “foreign organization”, but it seems to require that the organization be organized and operated outside the USA.
Antifa operates for the most part as a decentralized, cell based movement of like minded individuals.
Does it?
Someone is printing flyers. Someone is creating web content. Someone is communicating with ‘like minded individuals’ to give time/place to show up. Someone is buying supplies, someone is storing and distributing supplies, someone is providing transportation. Someone is creating a bail fund, others are depositing funds, hiring legal defense and somebody makes the call to disburse those funds.
No. It doesn’t.
There is a clear organization. We know it. We know who it is. And we –for some reason– act as if antifa’s claims of ‘no organization’ are real. All while reporting, at the same time, on people funding them.
There’s coordinated activities and then there’s an Organization with an Org Chart. Not mutually exclusive but definitely not equivalent. If you and a dozen friends/acquaintances gather at a particular sports bar at a particular time to view a particular game on their big screen… that’s an example of a coordinated activity but there’s not an Org Chart, no identifiable leadership structure and organizational structure was required for y’all to get together.
Either way until Antifa gets slapped with the designation of ‘Foreign terrorist’ the most powerful tools ain’t (legally) available. There’s still plenty of tools to use in the meantime to bust them up that I definitely agree with you ‘for some reason’ aren’t being utilized to break Antifa.
yes, but you are not AG, Blondie is and that’s the problem. This will go as far as those Epstein files collecting dust on her desk
That is not true. There is no such legal status as “domestic terrorist organization”, or “domestic terrorist”. Affiliation with Antifa isn’t and can’t be a crime. To arrest someone that individual must have committed a crime, or conspired with others to commit one, or have invested the proceeds of several specific crimes committed as part of a pattern of such crimes, or something like that. Mere affiliation won’t do it, and nor will giving material support, let alone moral support.
The right way to do it is for Patel to order the FBI to study footage of the riot and track down every person seen committing a crime, just like they did to the J6 rioters. Make each of them answer for their own crimes. Remove it to federal court on civil rights grounds, to get it before juries drawn from the entire Northern district of California.
Sigh… I feel so old and tired. I feel like a Roman in the city while the Vandals are destroying things. They can’t be reasoned with because there is nothing that they really want; they are just against any system of order.
(” Some people just want to see the world burn.“)
They have no sense of how civilization works; they think they will continue to live in peace and comfort no matter what happens.
They don’t understand that they will have to live in the world they create.
Sadly we must try to save them from themselves, no matter the temptation to stay in our comfortably walled off world. I hate it though. It’s going to be dirty work and people are going to get hurt
I don’t want to save them. I want these violent thugs prosecuted and incarcerated for a very long time.
For those that are affluent I want civil actions against them. Obtain large settlements to help compensate their victims. Their victims include those who are intimidated from attending the school of their choice, being able to conduct daily activities without fear or harassment, and of course those who have been assaulted. Make them and their leftist families spend enormous sums to defend the legal actions.
Since Antifa was declare a terrorist group, has Blondie Kash or Dan had anyone prosecuted?
It was not “declared a terrorist group”, because there is no such thing. Trump’s press release was just that. It had no legal significance whatsoever.
Individuals who commit crimes are of course subject to prosecution, and the FBI has already shown us what it’s capable of if it sets its mind to it. Give them the J6 treatment. Study the footage and track them down. Gin up federal charges, and haul them before selected judges, and try them before juries in Eureka, which is in the Northern district of California so it counts.
Did you entirely miss the “international” video?
Henry, I’m not sure what you mean by the “international” video, but the entity known as “Antifa international” doesn’t seem to itself engage in any terrorist activity. Also what is your basis for assuming it is a foreign organization? I can’t find any information about where it is based.
Antifaschiste Aktion is an international communist terror organization.
It is not ‘foreign’., it is international.
That is the point of international socialism, aka ‘communism’.
Azathoth lying as usual.
Antifaschiste Aktion was a communist terror organization that existed in Germany only, and thus was foreign to the USA. It no longer exists. The modern Antifa movement takes is name and aesthetics from that organization but has no other connection to it.
In any case, an organization being “international” doesn’t give us any information on whether it’s foreign. And if it’s not foreign then it can’t be designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Which is the only designation of that kind that exists in US law.
These thugs do want something. They want to be in power over you. And they will let nothing get in their way.
“They have no sense of how civilization works; they think they will continue to live in peace and comfort no matter what happens.”
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”
George Orwell
Well Jimmy Kimmel informed me that antifa is not a real thing ; and I mean he would know being such a man of the people and all. So I’m guessing if I just close my eyes and keep posting about evil Zionist’s and the Jewish lobby ruining America this will all just go away.
From a Jewish administration? YEAH, SURE THEY ARE.
What the hell do you mean by that?
I’m forming a crack team of scientists to find out what your problem is.
Well if you think Trump and Vance are Jews then you are a total moron; but then again antisemitism is a low IQ issue; just ask rapper Mamdani.