Of what happened in berkeley tonight. Just after 5 30, the crowd started to form. Police set up barricades for the protesters, the demonstration quickly turned violent. At 6 01, can you see someone throwing fireworks toward police on the balcony. A minute later, demonstrators boke down the barriers and stormed the Martin Luther King Student Union building. By 6 25 they had broken windows and set a diesel generator completely on fire. After that, Police Issued numerous disbursal orders. At least for an hour, protesters remained. By a little after 8 00, many left and took to the streets of berkeley, breaking windows of a chase bank and shattering doors of a bank of america branch. Now, we have Live Team Coverage tonight, lets begin with lilian kim. Lillian . University Officials Say they suspected trouble when they saw paramilitary style protesters march toward campus. Uc berkeley pole say they had never seen anything like it, protesters dressed in black, inflicting violence on campus. T
For special offers now. Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Chaos at cal. Tonight, a trail of destruction. Fires and flash bangs on campus as protesters greet a provocative speaker with violence. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. Kpix5s Jessica Flores got caught up in the middle of the mayhem. She is live at uc berkeley right now. Jessica . Reporter well, the plaza here is finally clear. And at one point, it did feel like a riot. Right now, the only people left behind are workers there as you can see, boarding up all of this damage right here. Loud booms rang out in the crowd as protesters set off fireworks in the middle of uc berkeleys plaza. An explosive display of anger to stop altright conservative breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus. Under no means will we allow any of in to go on near berkeley. Reporter demonstrators held signs but others covering their faces vandalized property. After the portable light went down, it erupted
For special offers now. Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Chaos at cal. Tonight, a trail of destruction. Fires and flash bangs on campus as protesters greet a provocative speaker with violence. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. Im ken bastida. Kpix5s Jessica Flores got caught up in the middle of the mayhem. She is live at uc berkeley right now. Jessica . Reporter well, the plaza here is finally clear. And at one point, it did feel like a riot. Right now, the only people left behind are workers there as you can see, boarding up all of this damage right here. Loud booms rang out in the crowd as protesters set off fireworks in the middle of uc berkeleys plaza. An explosive display of anger to stop altright conservative breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos to speak on campus. Under no means will we allow any of in to go on near berkeley. Reporter demonstrators held signs but others covering their faces vandalized property. After the portable light went down, it erupted
When Police Declared an unlawful assembly, his speech was canceled. Good evening, everyone, im frank somerville. Im julie haener. It prompted police to scrap a performance by Milo Yiannopoulos. The controversial editor with the altright breitbart website. Deb, the situation is much calmer at this hour, than it was a couple of hours ago. Reporter a lot calmer. After that huge crowd, some 1500 people at its peak. Take a look at some of the Property Damage students are going to find here at the Student Union in the morning. 500,000 protesters are still rooming, on and off, splinter groups. A notorious speaker was silenced. Shut it down, they did. Selfdescribed Internet Troll Milo Yiannopoulos was already inside the Student Union. His speech sill two hours away, when the protests outside took a turn. Throwing fireworks and rocks, breaking windows, using the barricade set up to protect a building as battering rams instead. Then protesters set upon the light tower, toppled it, and set it on
At some point you say surely when they grabbed the Police Barricades and broke windows and when they went into the city streets theres a hands off approach because its your right to protests but when things get destructive and violent thats when things move in. I will say this. A long time ago when i was a student there and i went to protests there were people who came in from outside who were not students and thats what we saw. Yeah, i cant be sure. I wasnt there but thats what we saw and thats what people are saying the agitators were not students. Thats what police are saying. And Milo Yiannopoulos didnt even speak. So the protestors were successful but they did damage. Alex savage is there. Well get to him in a moment. Earlier this morning Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow which means six more weeks of winter. Were getting a taste of that now. We still have nearly seven weeks of winter. The way things are going we better prepare for that. Back into the rainy patterns and projections