Conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopolous wants DePaul University to refund his security costs after his event last night was shut down by anti-Trump activists supporting Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders.
The U.S.-based Brit’s event, part of his Dangerous Faggot speaking tour, was derailed when a group of SJW activists, objecting to his outspokenness on race and feminism, stormed the stage with one protester threatening to punch him in the face.
Here you see @DePaulU security doing nothing to remove this hostile woman interrupting @Nero ‘s speech. Shameful! pic.twitter.com/EBCsem3yB8
— Andrew (@LongMfer) May 25, 2016
MORE: Exclusive: DePaul SJW Ringleader Says Milo ‘Threatens My Safety’, Could Cause Massacres
The DePaul protesters were led by student and church minister Edward Ward and a female activist. With the event having been disrupted, Milo led a crowd to the DePaul president’s office to complain that his talk had been hijacked.
Before the event DePaul asked Milo him to pay $1,000 for security costs—only, he points out, to then fail to intervene when his tormentors stormed the stage. He told Heat Street: “I will be asking for my money back.
“What I’m surprised by is that the security, which I paid a thousand dollars for otherwise they threatened they would cancel [the event], refused to remove somebody from the stage who threatened to hit me. It’s so shocking,
“It’s a whiny loser’s move to sue but I want my money back. It’s up to them if they give me the money back but I will publish articles asking for it back.
“We’ll see who has the greater tenacity. I think it’s going to be me. DePaul is well aware of what’s happened. It’s up to them to take action.”
MUST SEE: Protesters storm stage, threaten Milo Yiannopoulos while spineless security do nothing https://t.co/L0Rf88uzMJ
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) May 25, 2016
Milo said the actions of his SJW opponents hugely benefited presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump: “They prove my point for me every time. The biggest winner from the event last night was Donald J. Trump.
“Do you have any idea how many Trump voters were created when that hit the local news? People have been contacting me by the hundreds on email and Twitter saying, ‘I wasn’t a Trump voter but I am now.’
“The extent to which Black Lives Matter is counter-productive to its own cause is incredible. They have no understanding of no political strategy. I’m happy for them to do it because it furthers my objective.”
MORE: Heat Street’s interview with Milo
Milo unsurprisingly rejected the accusation made to Heat Street by protest ringleader Edward Ward that Milo had threatened his safety: “It’s pretty obvious whose safety was at risk. This idea that making jokes about feminism could prompt a massacre is plainly preposterous.”
Milo said Ward had reacted unfavorably to his provocative compliments on his appearance: “He threatened to hit me because I said, ‘If you weren’t such an obnoxious c**t, I might even hit on you’, as he was prowling the stage. He walked up to me and said, ‘Don’t f**king try me, I’ll lay you out.’ ”
Milo added: “I don’t want it [the disruption] to happen. I would much rather finish the event because I had a lot of good jokes that 550 people didn’t get to see. That was irritating but when it does happen, it doesn’t exactly do any damage.”
UPDATE: DePaul University president Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider has apologized to Milo. In a letter to students Holtschneider said he sympathized with the DePaul College Republicans group, which hosted Milo’s event, saying they “deserved an opportunity to hear their speaker uninterrupted, and were denied it.”
He added in the letter: “I was ashamed for DePaul University when I saw a student rip the microphone from the hands of the conference moderator and wave it in the face of our speaker.
“Yesterday’s speaker was invited to speak at DePaul, and those who interrupted the speech were wrong to do so. Universities welcome speakers, give their ideas a respectful hearing, and then respond with additional speech countering the ideas.”
No word on whether Milo will get his cash back.
Apparently, students at @DePaulU were shouting “faggot go home”. Liberal intolerance, guys.#MiloAtDePaul
— Lukas Mikelionis (@LukasMikelionis) May 25, 2016