7 arrests outside Yiannopoulos’ speech at California college
FULLERTON, Calif. — Police arrested seven people after scuffles and at least one serious fight broke out between protesters and people attending a speech by conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at a Southern California college Tuesday night.
Dozens of protesters at California State University, Fullerton stood outside barricades chanting “Black lives matter,” and “Cops and the Klan go hand in hand.” Some carried signs that read, “Immigrants in, racists out.”
While heated, they were mostly peaceful, but one woman protesting the event punched a Yiannopoulos supporter several times before a third person subdued her with pepper spray.
The woman who was attacked, Genevieve Peters, said a protester holding a baby had been screaming and yelling so wildly that she had told her she needed to be careful for her baby.