Former UFC fighter Jake Shields reportedly backed masked attackers off an unidentified man during the protest at UC Berkeley of Milo Yiannopoulos’ scheduled speech on the campus, which was later cancelled.

Shields said the man he protected was jumped by masked men during the demonstration Wednesday.

“They attacked him for being a Trump supporter, no other reason,” Shields told MMAWeekly.com.

Shields, an MMA fighter currently competing in the welterweight division of the World Series of Fighting, posted about the incident on Twitter.

The aftermath of me helping a guy after being jumped by thugs. The police and 100's of civilians stood and watched. pic.twitter.com/7hN2iJ4kkf — Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) February 2, 2017

“It was a rough crowd, so I didn’t want to walk in the middle of it, and all of a sudden I see this guy running out completely covered in blood and these guys were chasing him with sticks, trying to circle him,” Shields told Breitbart. “Mobs of people. Nobody helped, but people were yelling, ‘Get up, get up.’ Like fifteen people were trying to attack him and others were cheering them on. No one helped, no one had the balls to step in, so my reaction was to run in and start picking people off.”

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