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By Christopher Cadelago and Hudson Sangree

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A noisy demonstration at UC Davis on Friday led organizers to cancel a controversial event featuring Breitbart News editor and “alt-right” favorite Milo Yiannopoulos and Martin Shkreli, the hedge-fund founder and former pharmaceutical executive reviled for raising the price of a potentially life-saving drug by 5,000 percent.

Protestors, who started gathering about two hours before the event’s scheduled 7:30 p.m. start time, chanted “shut it down” and held signs with slogans such as “your facism is showing.”

The event’s sponsor, the UC Davis College Republicans, called off the event shortly before 7 p.m., with someone making the announcement over a bullhorn. The reaction was muted. Ticket holders lined up outside the Sciences Lecture Hall slowly dispersed, while some protestors remained until the outside lights were shut off.

“It was the decision of the Davis College Republicans,” not the university, Andrew Mendoza, a first-year student and executive director of the club, said in a phone interview.

Mendoza said club members and police officers were worried about the potential for people to get hurt, including the possibility that demonstrators might use heavy objects to break the glass leading into the lecture hall.

He said the event was important to have because of the lack of conservative university professors and “bringing someone in like Milo begins to crack the ivory tower that the liberal elites have been able to perpetuate.”

“We are not done with this,” Mendoza said, urging supporters to visit the group's Facebook page for updates. “Milo is not done with this.”

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-...#storylink=cpy

LOL, they better get used to the hate they perpetuate.


Carl