Apologies in advance for yet another post about Ben Shapiro’s Thursday night speech at Berkeley, but the preparations being made are so ridiculous they can’t be overlooked.
To understand why businesses that surround the UC Berkeley campus are spooked, though, you don’t have to look any further back than February, when Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on campus. That speech was canceled, and after rioters destroyed a good bit of the campus, they took their act on the road and into town.
The video below is from that night and shows black-clad rioters smashing Bank of America ATMs.
https://twitter.com/sahilchinoy/status/827005465615810560
Fresh paint at Walgreen's pic.twitter.com/7d2L5XYdLv
— Michael Bodley (@michael_bodley) February 2, 2017
So it’s understandable why businesses in the area are closing up shop early and boarding up windows — even if it escapes all logic to say you’re rioting because the school is allowing notorious “white supremacist” Shapiro (or “Sharpiro”) to speak on campus.
In any case, here’s what appears to be the very same wall of ATMs being boarded up in anticipation of whatever might go down Thursday night. Remember, though, the antifa are just like World War II soldiers fighting off Nazis … except they do it by dressing in matching black hoodies and smashing store windows and spray painting graffiti like, “Kill Trump.”
VIDEO: B of A boarding up its ATMs on Telegraph Avenue next to @UCBerkeley, fearing violence during #BenAtBerkeley @benshapiro pic.twitter.com/Pn1PRg7Rh5
— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) September 14, 2017
#DEVELOPING @BofA_News in @CityofBerkeley near @UCBerkeley boarding up ahead of @benshapiro speech. pic.twitter.com/n675moOKwt
— Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) September 14, 2017
Wow Bank of America is boarding up there windows ahead of @benshapiro speech at Berkeley right now pic.twitter.com/rLM1W5w8rC
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) September 14, 2017
Businesses near @UCBerkeley boarding up in case things go sideways at tonight's @benshapiro event. This ATM was smashed up during Milo visit pic.twitter.com/qIzsPbppfM
— Jodi Hernandez (@JodiHernandezTV) September 14, 2017
A lot of stores around @UCBerkeley are closing early today, and boarding up, as a precaution during #BenAtBerkeley @benshapiro pic.twitter.com/7ukSbhp7xQ
— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) September 14, 2017
Why would any shops worry about @benshapiro smashing their windows? #BenAtBerkeley https://t.co/EgslnieS3p
— Walter Olson (@walterolson) September 14, 2017
All of those leftist entertainers should have just skipped the telethon for Houston and held a fundraiser to pay for the damage their fans plan to do to Berkeley because of a speaker with whom they (think they) disagree.
Hell with the university. You'd think local businesses would be a good enough reason for Berkeley's constabulary to stop fucking around. https://t.co/lgLOmQmy4W
— Bill Palmer (@BillPalmer23) September 14, 2017
The mayor seems a little … conflicted over this whole “free speech” thing. Maybe this time will be different?
.@UCBerkeley police: "We will confront anyone wearing a mask" & will have "zero tolerance for violence" at #BenAtBerkeley event tonight
— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) September 14, 2017
Oh? We are in unchartered territory here.
— Robert Neville ❌ (@OmegaMan58) September 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/peddie_autumn/status/908461705549684737
Businesses near UC Berkeley boarding up windows Bc of @benshapiro
"Is there a hurricane coming???"
"No,a short Jew with the wrong opinions."— Easton Satterfield ?? (@Eastonsatt1776) September 14, 2017
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Ready to rumble? Ben Shapiro dumps more cold water on Berkeley snowflakes https://t.co/BDrQRMAYF0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 14, 2017
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