Thief takes UC Berkeley GOP signup list after Yiannopolous visit

UC Berkeley police are investigating the theft of names and emails of people interested in joining the Berkeley College Republicans, the student group whose invitation to Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart News prompted a night of student protests and anarchist mayhem last week.

The Republicans had their usual table set up on Sproul Plaza at noon on Feb. 2, the day after the forced cancellation of the Yiannopoulos talk, when someone approached and took the signup sheet, said Sgt. Sabrina Reich, spokeswoman for the campus police, who received a formal complaint about it on Saturday.

Later, people on the list received “harassing emails” asking about their attendance at the Yiannopoulos event and warning of “negative repercussions,” such as making their names and addresses public, Reich said.

The group’s treasurer, David Craig, is quoted in the Daily Californian, the campus newspaper, saying that whoever stole the list is “attempting to extend their harassment of Milo to our potential members, and that’s an underhanded thing to do.”

Campus police offered to post an officer beside the Republicans’ table, but the group has canceled its tabling lately because of rain.