Domestic Terrorism: A Case Study

Domestic terrorism includes an act of intimidation or violence by citizens of the country. These terrorists try to inculcate fear to help their objectives that are ideological, political, and/or social. Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at Breitbart News, was supposed to talk at the University of California at Berkeley, but was forced to cancel because a riot broke out. The riot was so bad that republicans and Yiannopoulos supporters were attacked and over $100,000 worth of damages were made. During this time these rioters were holding us signs that included: "This is war" and "No safe spaces for racists". At New York University, Gavin McInnes, co-founder of Vice Media and comic, was invited to give a speech. During this time, anti-free speech rioters
fought and finally got the speech shut down. During this time, a woman is videod yelling at the cops and calling republicans bigots, neo-nazis, etc. She continues on yelling that the officers should be going after the "neo-Nazis" instead of them. A fight broke out between officers and rioters and eleven people were arrested. These rioters are attacking, burning, threatening, etc. people in order to bring fear upon them because of their political views and ideology. Based on the actions of these rioters, they are not protesting they are forcing their beliefs and opinions on others through fear thus making them domestic terrorists.