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Email suggests organizers didn’t intend for the event to happenBy Emily DeRuy | ederuy@bayareanewsgroup.com, Louis Hansen | lhansen@bayareanewsgroup.com and Lisa P. White | lwhite@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: September 23, 2017 at 10:20 am | UPDATED: September 24, 2017 at 2:58 amBERKELEY — A conservative UC Berkeley student group that had been working with right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to host a “Free Speech Week” on campus officially called off the four-day program on Saturday.But the former columnist for the “alt-right” Breitbart News doubled down on his promise to go through with the event, leaving university and law enforcement officials wading into an unpredictable, potentially violent showdown on Sunday.Related ArticlesDuring a hastily scheduled Facebook Live news conference Saturday morning, Yiannopoulos, who has made a career of trolling people online with racist and sexist attacks, insisted the event would move forward without the student group, the Berkeley Patriot.“We are going to be hosting an event come hell or high water tomorrow,” he said, flanked by anti-Islam writer Pamela Geller and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich...http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/23/uc-berkeley-free-speech-week-officially-canceled/
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