Protesters successfully shut down a University of California, Davis event Friday night headlined by infamous online harassers Milo Yiannopoulos and “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli. A mass of people appeared on campus before the event that the student-run Davis College Republicans hosted, shouting “shut it down” and prompting police to put up barricades, according to The Associated Press. The event was canceled a half-hour before it started. Yiannopoulos, a conservative writer for Breitbart News whose online harassing of actor Leslie Jones got him banned from Twitter in July, was speaking as part of his university tour, dubbed “The Dangerous Faggot Tour,” according to The Washington Post. He had previously announced that Shkreli ― who was also banned from Twitter last week for harassing a journalist ― would join him as a guest speaker.

Source: Huffington Post January 14, 2017 19:55 UTC