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A scheduled speech by Yiannopoulos was canceled on Wednesday by campus police, who said they could not guarantee the safety of attendees amid a crowd of demonstrators that included about 150 aggressive anti-fascist protesters intent on shutting down the forum. About 1,500 people were in attendance for the demonstration, most of them peaceful protesters, police said.
"Amid an apparently organized violent attack and destruction of property at the Martin Luther King Student Union, the University of California Police Department determined that it was necessary to evacuate Milo Yiannopoulos from the campus and to cancel tonight's scheduled 8 pm performance," campus police said in a statement.
"The violence was instigated by a group of about 150 masked agitators who came onto campus and interrupted an otherwise non-violent protest." A non-student who failed to leave the premises upon police orders was the only known arrest that occurred Wednesday evening, the San Francisco Chronicle reported citing campus police.
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The Canadian-born McInnes was invited to speak by the NYU College Republicans on Thursday evening. Outside the student center, protesters and activists repeatedly clashed with members of 'ProudBoys,' a fraternal order founded by McInnes, and Trump supporters who came to his defense.
"I'm dumbfounded that NYU would invite somebody who is a hate speaker," NYU student Tama Fine told WNBC.
McInnes said he was pepper-sprayed when entering the student center, which prompted the first melee to break out between his followers and protesters. New York police officers stepped in to form a barrier between the protesters and McInnes supporters.
"I got there as Gavin McInnes was making his way into the Kimmel center and huge fighting broke out," Rebecca Goyette, an artist and adjunct professor at various colleges in New York told RT. "I saw some of his supporters being actively aggressive against NYU students. It turned into a big melee on his way in. Then I saw this guy, Franklin Right, wearing a red lumber jack shirt, he started a whole chant of 'Heil Hitler' with the Nazi salute." Goyette said students were chanting back "F*** white supremacy!"
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Dolinsky voiced his concerns to the Jerusalem Post while on a four-day trip to Israel sponsored by the Israeli-Jewish Congress, which promotes ties between Israelis and European Jews. He was accompanied by MP and leader of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Olexander Feldman.
"The Ukrainian Jewish community is in crisis," Dolinsky told the newspaper on Tuesday. "Either we should decide that the last one turns off the light, or we need to continue our struggle."
Victoria Islamic Center
Now, in a sense, the synagogue has become a mosque: the Jews of Victoria handed the Muslims the key to the building, so they would have a place to worship while rebuilding.
"Everyone knows everybody, I know several members of the mosque, and we felt for them," said Robert Loeb, the president of Bnai Israel, which affiliates with the Reform movement.
On Sunday, the Victoria community held an interfaith event in front of the mosque. Through local donations and a GoFundMe page, the mosque raised over $900,000 in the span of one day to rebuild the mosque. The Jewish Anti-Defamation League's southwestern arm also attended the event.
Ladmarald Cates
Iema Lemons sued the city, the police chief and Ladmarald Cates, a former officer who is now serving a 24-year federal prison term for violently raping her after she called to report vandalism to her home, the 2013 complaint states.
Although Cates was the subject of multiple complaints regarding his on- and off-duty behavior, prior to July 16, 2010, the date of Lemons' rape, he was not removed from the force and remained in daily contact with the public while performing his duties.
Complaints against Cates included a domestic violence arrest for choking and pushing his girlfriend, who was also a police officer, and accusations of sexual misconduct made in 2005 against Cates by a female inmate.
Cates was again accused of sexual misconduct in 2007 after a woman arrested for theft claimed he had sex with her in a jail cell after promising he would get her released if she complied. Her case was eventually closed without proper investigation, Lemons claims in her suit.
Lemons asserts in her lawsuit that Cates qualified as a sexual predator, since the first allegation involved a female inmate who was severely intoxicated and the second involved one who was clearly mentally ill, and that "Sex with a prisoner constitutes criminal sexual assault."
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Bondevik, who twice served as a Prime Minister of Norway and is still eligible to a diplomatic travel document, was held earlier this week at a Dulles air hub outside Washington DC.
He was travelling to the US to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, a string of high-profile gatherings attended by international guests and religious leaders following the inauguration of the new US President.
However, Bondevik was taken aside by the US airport staff and unceremoniously bundled into a room with people from the Middle East who were also subjected to checks. After waiting for over half an hour, he was questioned for 20 minutes over his visit to Iran, before being allowed in.
"They began to ask me why I had been in Iran and what I was going to do in the US," he told the Norwegian TV2. Bondevik, who currently serves as President of the The Oslo Centre human rights organization, was in Iran in 2014 to deliver a speech.
Comment: What progress is he referring to?
The letter stresses that the executive order's blanket "suspension" - it avoids the word "ban" - is "not the right approach" to strengthening national security. The letter also argues in favor of supporting the DACA program. The goal is to publish the open letter this week, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. Changes are still being made to the document, and it's possible it may not be released.
"We share your goal of ensuring that our immigration system meets today's security needs and keeps our country safe," said a draft of the letter. "We are concerned, however, that your recent Executive Order will affect many visa holders who work hard here in the United States and contribute to our country's success." The draft, noted by Bloomberg, also states that "our nation's compassion is part of what makes it exceptional," and continues by offering to help the administration come up with ways to set up thorough screening while avoiding a complete suspension to U.S. refugee programs. The companies also offer aid in resolving the status of the 750,000 so-called "Dreamers," undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children and governed by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The program, created by former President Barack Obama in 2012, has allowed more than 700,000 people to obtain renewable two-year work permits.
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Brendan McCarthy or self proclaimed 'Mac 'Dr Evil' McCarthy' faces three counts of causing serious injury relating to consensual piercing and body modifying at his shop in Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
The charges relate to the removal of a client's ear, removal of a client's nipple and tongue splitting procedures.
McCarthy of Morton Road, Bushbury, appeared before magistrates in Walsall only to confirm his name, age and address.
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Police said the Khadijah Masjid Islamic Center in Montreal had been the target of vandals and were investigating the motive as a possible hate crime.
The defacing attack comes days after gunman Alexandre Bissonnette opened fire on worshippers attending evening prayers at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec in Quebec City
Comment: Why did the police stand down for 4 hours letting $100,000 worth of damage to be done and people to be physically attacked?