A field representative from the Leadership Institute was punched in the face during an alleged attack at UC Berkeley on Tuesday while training student members for Turning Point USA.
A field representative for the Leadership Institute was allegedly physically assaulted on the campus of UC Berkeley on Tuesday morning while training members for Turning Point USA (TPUSA).
A witness captured the attack on video, which was then sent to TPUSA’s founder and executive director, Charlie Kirk, who then posted it to Twitter. “Imagine if the attacker was wearing a MAGA hat,” noted Kirk in his tweet.
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LEFTIST VIOLENCE ON CAMPUS
While recruiting for our @TPUSA group at UC Berkeley a leftist thug comes & assaults our activists punching him in the face & hitting him repeatedly
Imagine if the attacker was wearing MAGA hat, would be national news!
This is the violent left!
RT! pic.twitter.com/7RjbCPUcDf
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 21, 2019
Kimberly Guilfoyle reacted to the video on Twitter, calling it “disturbing.”
Freedom of speech is a staple American value… or it used to be!
Violent leftists at UC Berkeley attacked a @tpusa activist on campus. Video is disturbing@charliekirk11 is right. If attacker had been wearing MAGA hat this would be top story on every news broadcast in America! https://t.co/0B7Y6adUHb
— Kimberly Guilfoyle (@kimguilfoyle) February 21, 2019
“Our Turning Point USA students on over 1,400 campuses experience this type of hate almost daily,” said Charlie Kirk to Breitbart News, “We will not back down to the Leftist inspired hate mob that wants to silence us.”
“If this was a MAGA hat-wearing [Trump] supporter it would be all over cable TV,” added Kirk.
The UC Berkeley student who recorded the video, Alex Szarka, told Breitbart News that he began recording the incident after witnessing the aggressor flip over a TPUSA table.
“As we were approaching the main area on campus where student groups have their tables set up, we noticed [the TPUSA student] with a sign that said something like, ‘be aware of false hate crimes,’” said Szarka to Breitbart News.
“Then we noticed the altercation — a couple of people were really getting into the [TPUSA] guy’s face,” continued the witness, “Then, one of them flipped the table over. That was when I started filming. It all happened very quickly.”
“Unfortunately, I’m not exactly surprised at what transpired,” said Szarka, adding that after the incident, he had heard an individual defending the actions of the aggressor.
“I heard a guy say something like, ‘Yeah, violence is not okay, but he was effectively asking for it by being provocative,’” said Szarka, “He was referring to the sign about Smollett.”
Both UC Berkely and the individual who was allegedly assaulted did not immediately respond to Breitbart News’ request for comment.
This is a developing story. Follow Breitbart News for updates.
Update — A statement from the UC Berkeley student who filmed the attack has been added to this article.
Update 2 — This article has been changed to indicate the victim of the alleged assault is not a Berkeley student, but a field representative of the Leadership Institute training TPUSA students.
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