{"id":47136,"date":"2025-11-10T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T22:17:11","slug":"4-uc-berkeley-students-arrested-on-felony-vandalism-charges-for-anti-tpusa-art-installation-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47136\/","title":{"rendered":"4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation | Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 11\/10\/2025: This article has been updated to include the number of students arrested and the details of their arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.<\/p>\n

The individuals were arrested while attempting to hang an approximately five-foot-tall cardboard bug off Sather Gate in protest of Turning Point USA\u2019s, or TPUSA, upcoming event on campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The students, three of whom appear to be undergraduates, were booked in Santa Rita County Jail, where they remain awaiting bail of $20,000 each for three individuals and $10,000 for the other.<\/p>\n

While the UCPD arrest report cites Penal Code \u00a7594(b)(1), or felony vandalism, booking records from Santa Rita County Jail cite the arrest charge more broadly, under code \u00a7594(a)(1), or \u201cdefaces with graffiti or other inscribed material.\u201d<\/p>\n

Felony vandalism in California dictates damage to property totaling over $400.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the students have not yet been charged by the Alameda County District Attorney, their arraignment hearing has been set for Thursday at 9 a.m. at Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hayes Gaboury | Senior Staff<\/a><\/p>\n

The demonstrators had posted posters with racist, misogynistic, and otherwise inflammatory quotes from TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on the gate, who was killed on a college campus exactly two months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously,\u201d read one of the posters quoting Kirk.<\/p>\n

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Hayes Gaboury | Senior Staff<\/a><\/p>\n

The demonstration precedes a controversial TPUSA event<\/a> on campus today. Several groups have already announced plans to protest<\/a> the sold-out, 2,000-seat event scheduled for 6:30 p.m. this evening in Zellerbach Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As demonstrators attempted to string up the installation, it seems likely that the installation violated time, place and manner, or TPM, regulations, which prohibit individuals from physically obstructing or attaching anything to Sather Gate. Violating TPM violations are not, in themselves, criminal offenses; however, the associated actions may be considered a crime, according to campus policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While UCPD officers removed the bug, the individuals had pasted posters around the gate advertising a planned 4:30 p.m. protest. One sign read, \u201cHate is NOT welcome on our campus!\u201d<\/p>\n

Demonstrators also wrote, \u201cTrans rights! You can erase our chalk but you can\u2019t erase us\u201d in blue and pink chalk under the gate above a drawing of a transgender pride flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hayes Gaboury | Senior Staff<\/a><\/p>\n

Campus spokespeople did not provide a statement on the students\u2019 arrests.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update 11\/10\/2025: This article has been updated to include the number of students arrested and the details of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[30726,20391,143,145,144,30723,30725,30728,30724,14759,30727],"class_list":["post-47136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-brendan-tinney","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sather-gate","tag-sproul-hall","tag-tpm","tag-turning-point-usa","tag-ucpd","tag-zellerbach-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}