{"id":69813,"date":"2025-11-25T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69813\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:47:08","slug":"another-trump-agency-probing-uc-berkeley-over-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69813\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Trump agency probing UC Berkeley over protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Protesters face off against police outside a \u201cThis Is the Turning Point\u201d campus tour event at UC Berkeley on Nov. 10. Credit: AP Photo\/Noah Berger<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has opened a new investigation into protests<\/a> at UC Berkeley this month in opposition to\u00a0an event hosted by Turning Point USA<\/a>, a conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in September.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The probe by the U.S. Department of Education will review whether UC Berkeley violated the Clery Act. The federal law, enacted in 1990, requires colleges to report campus crime data and to give timely warnings of crimes that pose a threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust two months after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was brutally assassinated on a college campus, UC Berkeley allowed a protest of a Turning Point USA event on its grounds to turn unruly and violent, jeopardizing the safety of its students and staff,\u201d U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice was already investigating the Nov. 10 protests<\/a>, which occurred\u00a0outside Zellerbach Hall on the campus\u2019 Sproul Plaza.<\/p>\n

Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for Berkeley, said in a statement that the campus is aware of \u201ctwo violent crimes\u201d that occurred on the evening of the protests, \u201ca fistfight over an attempted robbery and someone being hit by a thrown object.\u201d He added that the campus \u201cwent to great lengths\u201d to provide security, including deploying police from multiple jurisdictions and hiring private security.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe campus also closed adjoining buildings and cordoned off part of the campus in order to prevent criminal activity, keep the peace, and ensure the event was not disrupted by protests,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Berkeleyside is a media partner of\u00a0EdSource<\/a>, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to providing analysis on key education issues across California. Berkeleyside occasionally republishes EdSource stories we believe will be of interest to our readers.<\/p>\n

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