[Berkeley, California riot]

I am livid tonight by what I’m seeing on the Cal campus.

Protests turned violent this evening because of a planned talk by a guy named Milo Yiannopoulos.

But what really makes me angry is that at one point so called anarchists showed up and attacked one of our reporters.

Don’t worry she’s okay.
I'll explain what happened to her in a moment.

The speaker Milo Yiannnopoulos is very controversial.
He says a lot of things that are designed to provoke.
Other would say his words are designed to hurt.

Protesters wanted to keep him from speaking this evening and they were successful.
His speech was cancelled because of the violence.

I find it ironic that Cal was at the forefront of the free speech movement back in the 60s.

Yet tonight the protest at Cal kept someone from exercising his right to free speech.
Just because they “disagree” with what he’s saying.

(For the record I'm in no way trying to defend what he says I'm only trying to defend his right to say it)

It appears that everything went to hell when the anarchists arrived.
They were the ones dressed in black with hoodies and masks on their faces.

Breanna Simmons messaged me and said:

"I'm a student protestor who was there.
It was completely peaceful until a group of people in black masks showed up.
It was them who started throwing rocks/eggs/fireworks and were breaking windows."

And those so called anarchists came prepared.
One even had a makeshift shield.

They picked up police barricades and used them as battering rams to break windows.

They also set a portable light and generator on fire.

And at one point they attacked our reporter Debora Villalon.
They threw a paint ball at her covering her with red paint.
She says it was pretty scary.

They also pepper sprayed a young woman giving an interview to a local TV station.
And I've seen what pepper spray can do.
It's not pretty.

I’d like to know what makes those protesters/anarchists think that doing that is okay?

I’d like to know what gives THEM the right to break windows and throw paint on one of our reporters.

Make no mistake.
I have no issues with protests.

I grew up in Berkeley.
I marched in anti-Vietnam war protests during the 60’s.

But I draw the line when it comes to violence.
And I especially draw the line when they attack one of our reporters.
Or pepper spray a young woman giving an interview.

Quite frankly I think that’s disgusting.