Federal authorities are investigating events surrounding a violent Antifa protest at a conservative gathering in California, a top Justice Department official announced Nov. 11.
That action comes in the wake of a Nov. 10 Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event at the University of California, Berkeley, where “violent thugs” attacked attendees, said Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general who heads the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
In a social media post, Dhillon described “issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity” in the Golden State.
TPUSA is a conservative organization whose cofounder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated while speaking on a Utah college campus Sept. 10—a killing allegedly tied to Antifa-related ideology because of anti-fascist markings found on both spent and unspent bullets that were seized from the crime scene as evidence in the case….