Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, condemned the violent clash between Antifa agitators and attendees at a Turning Point USA event in California on Monday night, warning that the unrest mirrors the notorious campus riots that rocked the University of California, Berkeley, in 2017.

In a Tuesday morning post on X, Dhillon said that her office will conduct a formal investigation into the violence.

“We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017,” Dhillon wrote Tuesday. “@UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case. The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA.”

The incident reportedly erupted outside a Turning Point USA student chapter event featuring conservative speakers when Antifa activists clad in black clashed with attendees and police. Videos shared on social media show chaotic scenes of shouting, shoving, and pepper spray as demonstrators attempted to block entry to the venue.

Dhillon’s reference to the 2017 Berkeley riots recalls when Antifa protesters violently shut down an event featuring then-Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. That unrest caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and led to a lawsuit against the university that ultimately resulted in a settlement.

In her social media post, Dhillon suggested that California authorities have failed to learn from the Berkeley episode and are allowing Antifa groups to continue their activities with little accountability.

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