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Sat Nov 15, 2025, 01:33 PM Saturday

DOJ investigation into Berkeley's Turning Point protest sends warning to other colleges

The Trump administration, long critical of the way colleges handle campus protests, is sending a clear warning after multiple arrests were made outside of a Turning Point USA event this week.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) swiftly announced an investigation after anti-fascist demonstrators gathered at the University of California, Berkeley, against the last Turning Point stop of its college tour, which had begun with the event where the group’s founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated.

The administration has repeatedly cut or frozen the federal funding of schools that it feels have failed to keep the peace, and the first major protest of the academic year offered it a clear contrast: a university long seen as one of the most liberal in the country, and an advocacy group the president backs wholeheartedly.

At least three people were arrested during the protests, with fights breaking out and demonstrators chanting “No Trump, No KKK, no fascist USA” and “F— your dead homie,” referencing Kirk, local outlet Berkeleyside reported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doj-investigation-berkeley-turning-point-110000285.html

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