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WEBVTT >> HELLO HELLO HOW ARE YOU?NATALIE: MILO YIANNAPOULOUSADDRESSING HUNDREDS AT U.C.DAVIS ABOUT THE ABRUPTCANCELLATION OF HIS SPEAKINGEVENT.>> THIS IS A UNIVERSITY THIS ISA PLACE WHERE YOU SUPPOSED TO BEALLOWED T OHEAR ANYONE NATALIE: TENSIONS ERUPTEDSHORTLY BEFORE HE TOOK THE STAGEALONG WITH FORMER PHARMACEUTICALCEO MARTIN SQUARELY.MISSY WEST WAS CAUGHT IN THEPROTEST. >> POLICE ACTUALLY DID ABARRICADE SO WE WOULDN'T BE ABLETO GO INTO THE BUILDING.NATALIE: ON FACEBOOK TODAYYIANNAPOULOUS CALLED THE PROTESTVIOLENT, CLAIMING PROPERTY WASDAMAGED.THE UNIVERSITY DENIES THAT.1ST YEAR STUDENT DANIEL GRAVESAGREES.>> IT WASN'T LIKE A WAR ZONELIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THEINTERNET AND VARIOUS MEDIA MADEIT SOUND.NATALIE: U.C. DAVIS ALSO SAYS ITWAS THE COLLEGE REPUBLICANS WHOPULLED THE PLUG, SAYING QUOTE.STUDENT AFFAIRS AND SAFETYPERSONNEL CONFERRED WITH EVENTORGANIZERS ABOUT THE SITUATIONAT LAST NIGHT'S EVENT.THE DAVIS COLLEGE REPUBLICANSCONSIDERED THE FACTS GIVEN ANDDETERMINED THEY WERE GOING TOCANCEL THE EVENT.>> LASTNIGHT DID NOT HAPPENBECAUSE THE COLLEGE REPUBLICANSCANCELED IT.THAT'S A LIE.NATALIE: YIANNAPOULOUS'S MESSAGEAT U.C. DAVIS TODAY.FOCUSED ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH.THEY CANNOT STOP US FROMDOING WHAT WE WANT.NATALIE: WHAT DO YOU SAY TOPEOPLE WHO CALL YOU HATEFUL ANDSAY THAT YOU ENCITE VIOLENCE?>> THEY'RE PREPOSTEROUS.AND FRANKLY WHAT I'VE LEARNED IS

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Controversial public speaker Milo Yiannopoulos held a rally Saturday on the quad at UC Davis after his event with Martin Shkreli, put on by the Davis College Republicans Club, was canceled. Yiannopoulos promoted the protest on his Facebook page Saturday morning, asking people "to protest the university's pathetic failure to protect free speech." "UC Davis is lying to the press. They keep saying that the College Republicans were the ones to shut down the event last night. Not true," Yiannopoulos said on his Facebook page. "My staff were in meetings with the campus police and university administrators last night and were told by them that they event could not proceed. We will be pursuing this matter further." Yiannopoulos is an editor at the alt-right website Breitbart and is often accused of being against Islam and feminism. Shkreli is the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals that received intense scrutiny after the company announced it was raising the price of a life-saving anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent. The Davis College Republicans Club canceled an event Friday evening with the two controversial public figures, university officials said. A large group of protesters gathered at the Science Lecture Hall by 6 p.m. Friday, where Yiannopoulos and Shkreli were scheduled to speak at the invitation of the club. At times during Friday's protest, tensions boiled over with shouting matches turning into shoving matches. Club leaders canceled the event after consulting with the UC Davis Police Department and UC Davis Student Affairs officials. "The decision was made initially because the lives of the officers were threatened, the lives of the students were threatened, as well as the property of the school," Executive Director of the Davis College Republicans Andrew Mendoza said. At one point, Shkreli emerged from the lecture hall and was pushed back by protesters into the police line. When asked if he agreed with the decision to cancel the event, Shkreli said, "I think it's reasonable." In a statement to KCRA 3, Interim UC Davis Chancellor Ralph Hexter said he was "deeply disappointed" with how the protests transpired. “Our community is founded on principles of respect for all views, even those that we personally find repellent," Hexter said. "As I have stated repeatedly, a university is at its best when it listens to and critically engages opposing views, especially ones that many of us find upsetting or even offensive.” Police arrested one person inside the venue, but no one else was taken in to custody.