Yiannopoulos said the university again was standing in the way of free speech, and the university said Yiannopoulos and his student group counterparts had failed to fill out the necessary paperwork. Some observers said it was also never really about a clash of ideas so much as a clash of extremes, anyway. Hundreds of UC Berkeley police, with help from other local departments, had erected large orange barriers to surround Sproul Plaza, where Yiannopoulos planned to speak. “Regardless of what side they were on, we just wanted to make sure that everybody was being safe,” said Sabrina Reich, a spokesperson for the UC Berkeley campus police department. “Look forward to two decades of MILO talks and rallies at UC Berkeley.”

Source: thestar September 25, 2017 02:37 UTC