Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos' U. of Md. appearance canceled due to security costs

A student group that wanted to host the controversial Breitbart editor and writer Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of Maryland, College Park on Wednesday says it has canceled the event because security would be too expensive.

Terps for Trump said bomb threats made at other universities where the alt-right firebrand had been scheduled to speak had added $2,000 to security costs, according to Breitbart. That brought the total cost of staging the event to $6,500.

The group opened a GoFundMe page to pay for the event, but the page has since been taken down.

Yiannopoulos, who was banned from Twitter this summer for allegedly leading what the social media site called the "targeted abuse" of "Saturday Night Live" comedian Leslie Jones, has been criticized for vitriol toward Muslims, Black Lives Matter activists and others.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/blog/bs-md-terps-for-trump-milo-yiannopoulos-20161024-story.html

[font color=330099]If I was a student there, I would say "that works for me."[/font]