Fight breaks out near UC Berkeley before Turning Point USA tour finale
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A bloody fight broke out near the University of California at Berkeley on Monday afternoon ahead of the Turning Point USA event on campus.
Dr. The event, which Frank Turek and Rob Schneider will attend, marks the end of the “This Turning Point” tour.
It takes place just two months after TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at a campus event in Utah on September 10.
The shooting broke out around 4:30 PM PST. During the fight, two people were seen fighting and one of them was bleeding from his face.
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A bloody fight broke out near UC Berkeley on Monday afternoon, just before the Turning Point USA event. (Elizabeth Heckman/Fox News Digital)
The Berkeley Police Department told Fox News Digital that at least two people were arrested. (Nikolas Lanum/Fox News Digital)
Video shot by Fox News Digital also shows a crowd of agitators gathering around the fight. Many of the demonstrators wore keffiyehs and held signs with left-wing messages.
Local police had difficulty restraining the agitators and were seen wearing shield masks and wielding batons.
It is unknown how many participants were injured.
The Berkeley Police Department told Fox News Digital that at least two people had been arrested as of 6 p.m. local time.
“I do not have specific details about the purpose of the arrests,” a police spokesman said. “At this point, I can share that one of the parties has been arrested for assault.”
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A spokesperson for UC Berkeley told Fox News Digital that the fight did not take place on campus property and did not provide further details.
Kirk’s mentor Dr. Frank Turek spoke with Fox News Digital last week about the upcoming Berkeley event.
During the interview, Turek said he told Kirk that the stop he wanted to attend was the UC Berkeley stop.
“If I could go to any event with him, this would be it,” the Christian author said.
“I wanted to go to UC Berkeley because their views were very progressive and liberal, and I wanted to provide evidence that Christianity was indeed true.”
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After the event, protesters surrounded all exits, heckled attendees and shouted obscenities as they walked out.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Curto, Kyle Schmidbauer and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.
