Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos and former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli were supposed to speak Friday at UC Davis. But protests prompted officials to cancel the event, sparking a debate about free speech. Several hundred protesters, chanting and yelling, managed to shut down the event, billed as the first stop on Yiannopoulos’ “Dangerous Faggot” college campus tour. UC Davis police officers, having been singed by the famous pepper spray incident of 2011, in which one of their men brazenly sprayed peaceful seated protesters, were surprisingly passive. UC Davis Interim Chancellor Ralph Hexter said he was “deeply disappointed” by the protests and the cancellation.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 15, 2017 16:49 UTC