U. C. Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said the university had cancelled the April 27 event on Wednesday based on specific intelligence of threats "that could pose a grave danger to the speaker".
The University of California, Berkeley, on Thursday reversed its decision to cancel a speech on immigration by conservative commentator Ann Coulter in April.
Now, school officials said they'll work with Berkeley College Republicans and BridgeUSA - the student groups that originally invited Coulter - to find a spot for her to speak. "After acceding to all their requirements, which were also arbitrary and silly, and they claimed it was on the basis of safety, I suggested two measures that actually would allow free speech to exist on Berkeley if they wanted it to". Coulter and the groups that invited her to campus have vowed to hold the event anyway.
UC Berkeley has been synonymous with protest from the earliest days of the 1960s Free Speech Movement, when students fought for the right to speak out and set off a wave of campus activism around the country.
"This is as clear-cut a case as it gets that public universities are using taxpayer dollars to shut down conservative speech, while allowing liberal speech only", Brown said.
In February, the university was forced to cancel Milo Yiannopoulous' speech after about 150 masked protesters threw Molotov cocktails at police, sparking fires, along with fireworks and rocks, reported CNN.
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"What are they going to do?" But later that evening, Coulter told Tucker Carlson that she was still planning to speak, saying, "What are they going to do, arrest me?" "I'm giving a speech", countered Coulter. And after the university canceled Yiannopoulos' talk, President Donald Trump criticized the school and threatened in a tweet to pull federal funds from Berkeley.
More than 20 demonstrators were arrested. She says she has rights even Berkeley can't remove, and whether her politics of the right are right or not, she's right about that - even on a college campus.
Affirming this decision, Pranav Jandhyala, one of the event's organizers, said that, "She's definitely coming to Berkeley on the 27th".
She mockingly compared Berkeley's press release to "Southern sheriff rescinds cancelation of black vote!" They may sit back in their classrooms and act as if, "Oh no, we love free speech, and we so respect the Constitution".
"We also have an unwavering commitment to providing for the safety and well-being of speakers who come to campus, our students and other members of our campus and surrounding communities".
In another violent outburst, anti- and pro-Trump protestors clashed in Berkeley on Saturday. According to school officials, they don't have the resources to protect students - and the conservative herself - from left-wing rioters.
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