Leftist Assaults Conservative Student As Berkley Onlookers Laugh

Shocking moment conservative activist is punched in the face on UC-Berkeley campus over sign reading 'hate crime hoaxes hurt real victims'

• Hayden Williams was attacked on Tuesday at the campus in Berkeley, California
• He was running a sign-up table for conservative group Turning Points USA
• Table had a sign referencing the Jussie Smollett case as an alleged hate hoax
• Angry man called Williams a 'racist' and punched him in the face, video shows
• Campus police are investigating and ask the public for information on the perp

An assault on a conservative activist on the University of California-Berkeley campus has been caught on camera.

Hayden Williams was running a campus recruitment table for the conservative group Turning Points USA on Tuesday when he was approached by a violent attacker, video of the incident shows.

According to Campus Reform, the sign on the group's table read 'hate crime hoaxes hurt real victims,' a reference to allegations that actor Jussie Smollett staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in Chicago.

The man who attacked Williams shouted: 'Mother f**ker. You racist little inbred b***h. C**t!'

At one point, he also threatened to 'shoot' Williams.

Williams said that as the attack unfolded, a number of people simply stood by and watched.

'Some students nearby tabling were laughing, even one guy was smiling while I was being attacked and trying to hand me his flyer as a joke,' he told Campus Reform.

'The idea is free speech has consequences.... which include you getting assaulted if they find you promoting ideas others don't agree with.'

Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point, a campus group devoted to limited government and free markets, said that the incident highlighted a double standard.

'Imagine if the attacker was wearing MAGA hat, would be national news! This is the violent left!' Kirk wrote on Twitter.

The incident drew notice from several conservative figures with national profiles.

'When a liberal like Jussie cries wolf and fakes an attack he receives unmatched coverage, sympathy & support creating a tsunami of attention,' wrote Don Trump Jr on Twitter. 'When a conservative student literally gets punched in the face and it’s caught on video it barely makes a ripple.'

Senator Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, wrote: 'This is abhorrent behavior against free speech on campus. No form of violence is acceptable!'

Williams was helping Turning Point USA, but he is not actually a member of the group. Williams is campus representative for Leadership Institute, which runs Campus Reform, the website that first reported on the incident.

Guillermina Castro, a UC-Berkeley freshman, told Fox News that she was spearheading the drive to create a Turning Point chapter on campus, and that Williams was helping her by manning the table while she was in class.

She said she was shocked to return to find the flyers on the table ripped up and Williams nursing his injured eye.

Castro said that when she tweeted about the incident, she received a flood of messages applauding the attack, and accusing her of being a 'white supremacist.'

'I said 'Wait, I'm Latina!' she said.

UC-Berkeley campus police said in a statement that the attack took place at 3.29pm on Upper Sproul Plaza.

Police said that there were two men who approached the table and confronted the alleged victim.

'A physical confrontation ensued when one of the two men slapped the phone out of the victim’s hand,' the police statement said.

.The suspect then knocked over the table the victim was at and the two men struggled over the phone. During the incident, the suspect punched the victim several times causing injury to the victim’s eye and nose.' [SOURCE]