Members of the crowd had who are violent. Its not to move a crowd in any particular direction. Students and others say theyre sad to see such extreme police measures needed on their campus. And at the birth place of free speech. Im apprehensive right now walking through kafrmz. Its crazy. Reporter we are back here live you can see some folks are sitting right in the middle of the street. Others are standing out listening to speakers. This is where the university has been closed down. This is where the barricades are up. Nobody can get on to sproul plaszcza. Two hours from starting and so far things are peaceful. Recording live Jodi Hernandez nbc bay area. Well keep eye close watch. A couple of hours ben shapiro retweeted Jodi Hernandezs tweets showing the boarding up and the business preparations for tweets. Saying yes lets pretend this is all done in fear of conservatives. Here is ben shapiro . Born in l. A. To a partly russian jewish family. He graduated from ucla in political scienc
Milo yiannopoulos posted this message to shapiro on facebook best of luck to my leftwing warmup act tonight at uc berkeley. The conservative firebrand will be at cal later this month. For whats being billed as free speech week. Yiannopoulos plans to speak 3 of the 4 days. Other confirmed speakers include his former breitbart boss steve bannon. Author ann coulter. And fired Google Engineer james damore. More from uc berkeley coming up at 6 30. Three women. Who say they quit their jobs at google in frustration. Now accuse the company of systematic discrimination. And they are taking the search giant to court. A lawsuit filed today seeks class action status. The suit says google pays women less than men for similar work. It also claims the company puts women in jobs that are less likely to lead to promotions. Kpix fives devin fehely explains the allegations. And what google is saying in response. Is google one of the most well respected, innovative, forwardlooking companies on the planet
Counterprotests. Theres been a Large Police Presence here. They have been here all day made up of ucberkeley police, police from other uc campuses, and city Police Officers. They have been walking in large groups of about 6 or 7 or 8. Now they are kind of dispersed in different spaces. Some groups opposed to the shapiro appearance scrawled messages on sidewalks and signs around campus. Others have said the barriers, closed sections of campus, clusters of police [ pause ] have militarized the campus. University Officials Say they have two goals here, protect attendees and protect everyones right to free speech. Reaction now from people on all sides of this debate. Berkeley has a responsibility as an Educational Institution to provide this Free Exchange of ideas of intellectual diversity not just feed their students one side of echo chamber of one ideology. We have conservatives on this campus. We engage with them. The difference is we do it in a productive way that involves community di
Speaker comes to campus. Riot rd. But then now it 11 00, security as a conservative speaker comes to kansas campus. Right police stood guard but poorly fist started flying. We have coverage of the free speech showdown starting tonight with joe vazquez. You can see behind me the barricades are still up but the police have finally gone home minutes ago. A large demonstration, and one person appears to have been injured. We will show you some video here now around 9 30. A womanly injured and appeared to be bleeding. The Police Officer surrounded her quickly and made room for an ambulance. A witness tells me she was expressing her support for ben shapiro who was speaking here when she was attacked. She was holding up a sign, so she was up here holding it up and someone came up and yanked the sign from her and she chased after him. People try to get involved to break it up. A crowd of demonstrators took over this part of the campus and about 1000 people right here crowding up the streets. T
Barricades are still up but the police have finally gone home minutes ago. A large demonstration, and one person appears to have been injured. We will show you some video here now around 9 30. A womanly injured and appeared to be bleeding. The Police Officer surrounded her quickly and made room for an ambulance. A witness tells me she was expressing her support for ben shapiro who was speaking here when she was attacked. She was holding up a sign, so she was up here holding it up and someone came up and yanked the sign from her and she chased after him. People try to get involved to break it up. A crowd of demonstrators took over this part of the campus and about 1000 people right here crowding up the streets. They flooded it and it started growing as the night went on. The sheer volume of officers in riot beer on and off campus was quite quite dramatic. A substantial portion of campus was surrounded by police. Folks who went inside to see shapiro had to get through a metal detector. O