On the evening of November 10, 2025, Antifa protesters stormed the barriers outside the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) event at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, transforming a routine conservative gathering into a chaotic battlefield just two months after the assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. Masked demonstrators, many donning keffiyehs—a symbol of pro-Palestinian solidarity amid the Israel-Hamas conflict—chanted “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA” as they hurled fireworks, lit smoke grenades, and attempted to breach the entrances, forcing police to rush attendees inside for safety. The sold-out event, featuring speakers like comedian Rob Schneider and Christian apologist Frank Turek, drew a packed house of young conservatives eager to honor Kirk’s legacy, but the mob’s aggression turned the campus into what eyewitnesses described as a “war zone,” with flares exploding and backfiring cars mistaken for gunshots heightening the terror.

Tensions boiled over into outright violence when a vendor selling Kirk memorial “Freedom” T-shirts—emblazoned with the word Kirk famously wore during his final speech—clashed with Antifa militants who view such symbols as anathema to their anti-capitalist, anti-freedom ideology. Footage captured a bloody brawl where a Trump supporter in a red shirt pummeled a masked protester, leaving one man bloodied on the sidewalk as comrades jeered racial slurs like “You’re bleeding, white boy!” and mocked Kirk’s death with taunts of “Fck your dead homie.” Police in riot gear intervened, arresting at least three agitators, including two from the initial fight and another for trying to cross barriers, while protesters blocked all exits post-event, screaming threats like “Do the world a favor and kll yourself” at families, including mothers shielding young children. This wasn’t mere protest; it was a calculated assault on conservative assembly rights, echoing Berkeley’s infamous 2017 riots but amplified by raw grief over Kirk’s September 10 slaying at Utah Valley University.

Yet, even as Antifa’s communist foot soldiers toil to erase Kirk’s influence—through censorship, violence, and gleeful celebration of his murder—their efforts only fortify the unbreakable edifice he built at TPUSA, a movement that mobilized millions of youth against leftist hegemony. Kirk’s assassination by a deranged gunman failed to silence his voice; instead, it ignited a firestorm of resolve, with tonight’s attendees chanting “We are Charlie!” amid the tear gas and hatred, proving that freedom’s defenders won’t cower. These radicals, blind to their own fascist tactics, can shatter barriers and spill blood, but they can’t extinguish the turning point Kirk engineered—a populist wave that has reshaped American discourse, outlasting any thug’s Molotov or assassin’s bullet. TPUSA endures, more resilient than ever, a testament that tyranny’s rage only heralds its own defeat.