Originally Posted by
Puppycow
It was reported that some of them were arrested and they were not students of the university. True, we can't know about
all of them, but that's why I put my caveat. The university statement claimed they were outsiders.
Here's that article again:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us...ulos-berkeley/
First of all, I don't believe that all of the troublemakers were unaffiliated with the university. The probability of that seems rather close to zero.
More importantly, however, it's completely irrelevant. It was up to the university (as well as the city) to provide adequate security, and it didn't. Perhaps on purpose. Both the university
administrators and the city mayor actually incited protests to some extent as well. Especially the city mayor. I think there is ample evidence that the 1st Amendment rights of Milo, the organizers of his talk, and the people who had tickets to the event were violated by both the university and the city of Berkeley.