On Thursday, CSULA student-activists, outside agitators, and even professors formed a mob at the university student union to protest the arrival of Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro. After university administrators initially banned Shapiro from speaking, CSULA president William Covino walked back his anti-free speech edict and reluctantly accepted the First Amendment.
As Shapiro spoke to a relatively calm audience inside, protests erupted outside the event room. Protesters assaulted, harassed, intimidated, shouted down, and berated event-goers, according to Daily Wire reporters on the scene. One attendee claimed that he got “punched in the ear” by a protestor. Another man, who is disabled, was pushed and kicked multiple times. Before the speech began, members of the school’s black student union reportedly assaulted Breitbart journalist Adelle Nazarian.
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