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UC-Berkeley readies police as Ann Coulter plans to speak in public plaza on campus
Will there be symbolic arrests?[WASHINGTONPOST] The University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, at Berkeley is bracing for massive protests and potential violence in an open, public space known as Sproul Plaza after learning that conservative commentator Ann Coulter plans to give a speech there Thursday afternoon. The state flagship university has become ground zero for an intense confrontation between the far left and the far right since Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s election in November, with some protesters trying to stop controversial speakers from appearing on campus and others objecting that such actions violate their right to free speech. Some of the festivities have devolved into riots, leaving the school and the city to struggle with how best to balance the free exchange of ideas with community safety. In February -- and twice more since then -- masked protesters turned demonstrations over the boundary between free speech and hate speech into violent confrontations, setting fires, causing injuries and leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars of property damage in their wake. "The character of that attack on campus was unprecedented," UC-Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said Tuesday. Coulter’s choice of Sproul Plaza, site of the Free Speech Movement protests in the 1960s, is both symbolic and logistically challenging for the university because anyone can be there. Dirks said that for an inside event, the university would have metal detectors and other ways to search for weapons, but security will be much more difficult in a public outdoor space. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-26 |
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