On Monday night, November 10, 2025, a sold-out Turning Point USA stop at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall descended into a chaotic and violent scene outside the venue as left-wing protesters swarmed the entrances and clashed with police and attendees. Video that spread across social platforms showed chants, smoke, thrown objects, and a brutal brawl that left at least one attendee bloodied and shocked by what should have been a peaceful exercise of free speech.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Justice Department has opened an investigation and that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force is reviewing the unrest — a welcome step from a federal government that at least for now appears willing to treat organized political violence, wherever it comes from, as a national threat. Conservatives have warned for months that the toleration of militant far-left groups would end in lawlessness, and federal involvement confirms this was not a garden-variety campus protest.
Law enforcement reports and on-the-ground footage show multiple arrests and at least one serious injury after protesters reportedly threw bottles and smoke devices, with one attendee transported to the hospital after being struck by glass. Turning Point leaders also reported theft and assault during the melee, underscoring how these gatherings quickly become hunting grounds for violent agitators rather than legitimate political expression.
TPUSA officials and conservative voices pointed the finger at antifa and organized far-left groups for orchestrating the interference, while footage and eyewitness accounts documented protesters wearing keffiyehs, chanting “Fascists out of Berkeley,” and attempting to push through police barriers. Left-leaning outlets tried to downplay the scope of the violence, but the raw video leaves little room for comforting spin — this was intimidation and assault in broad daylight on a major university campus.
UC Berkeley issued a statement that it will cooperate with federal authorities and that it condemns violence, but words without consequences are hollow when students and guests cannot safely attend events for fear of being attacked. The university’s insistence that the protest was “mostly peaceful” flies in the face of footage showing organized attempts to block entrances and physically assault attendees, and that dissonance is precisely why federal scrutiny is necessary.
Enough is enough. For years, conservative students and speakers have been harassed and silenced on campuses that once championed free speech; now those campuses and the activist groups they tolerate are letting violence spill from the fringes into the mainstream. It is time for university leaders, local officials, and federal law enforcement to stop treating conservative gatherings as nuisances and start treating violent political thuggery as the criminal problem it is.
Patriots who love this country must demand accountability: prosecute the violent offenders, strip public funding from institutions that tolerate domestic political terror, and protect the constitutional right of Americans to speak without fear of being beaten or robbed for their views. If we fail to stand firm now — on law and order and on free speech — we will have surrendered the American public square to mobs and sacrificed the next generation’s liberty in the name of performative tolerance.
