Breitbart News editor Ben Shapiro delivered a speech to the Young America’s Foundation at California State University Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon, despite initial efforts by the university to shut down the event.
Students were prevented from entering by approximately 150 demonstrators standing outside the front entrance.
However, attendees managed to slip into the auditorium through the back entrance, prompting Shapiro to observe that in today’s America, conservatives were forced to exercise their First Amendment rights “by the back door.”
Some demonstrators entered the building and began chanting slogans, such as “Racists go home!” and “No hate speech!”
Once the speech began, efforts to disrupt it continued. The fire alarm was pulled; Shapiro kept speaking, to cheers from the audience.
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Initially, administrators at the taxpayer-funded public university tried to force the postponement of the event in favor of a later event where Shapiro would have to appear alongside speakers who disagreed with him. Shapiro vowed to speak at the original time scheduled, and the university backed down, releasing a statement Thursday
A conservative leaning Libertarian stuck in the land of Nuts, Fruits, and Flakes, or as it's affectionately known, by regular people, Kalifornia
Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir
Thursday, February 25, 2016
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