TBS Today, Nov. 11 (Part II)
Federal authorities say they will investigate whether UC Berkeley provided "adequate security" at Monday night's Turning Point USA event on campus.
Harmeet K. Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, announced the plans Tuesday on X, writing that "Mob assault and thuggish intimidation of attendees exercising their First Amendment rights are unacceptable."
DOJ to investigate Turning Point event in Berkeley
UC Berkeley said it would cooperate fully with the federal probe and also conduct its own investigation.
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