In an op-ed in the campus paper The Daily Californian, Troy Worden and Pieter Sittler, both representatives of the Berkeley College Republicans, write that the narrative of a “peaceful protest” infiltrated by black bloc anarchists is a false one. “They stood idly by as Yiannopoulos fans were pepper-sprayed and beaten,” they write. “No — by and large, the student protesters danced as the campus burned, putting the Roman Emperor Nero to shame.”