Milo’s Phoenix Event Cancelled AGAIN Amid Rumored Death Threat, Venue Problems & Antifa Action

Courtesy Milo Yiannopoulos, Facebook.

The event, originally scheduled for February 24, had to be rescheduled due to coordinated efforts by Phoenix’s Antifa Group. So… the event was set to go off without difficulty on Friday, March 2, 2018.

Here is info on the first cancellation:

Milo Reschedules Phoenix Event; Claims Antifa Violence a Factor; Antifa Responds

Then, on March 1, Milo made an announcement on his Facebook page stating there were credible death threats. He later revised the post to say the venue may have been behind the cancellation. Here are the two posts from Milo himself:

URGENT NOTICE TO PHOENIX TICKET-HOLDERS

Scottsdale Police informed the promoter and venue for Friday night’s sold-out event “A Night With Milo” this evening that a credible death threat against my person has been received. A credible death threat is one that is “real and immediate,” not conjectural or hypothetical.

Ordinarily, this would suggest that someone with knowledge of our secret venue and the time I would be speaking provided the police with detailed information about his or her intention to take my life and the police were convinced that this person had the means to do so and intended to carry out the threat. Credible death threats are relatively rare, compared to the usual volume of threats received by any public figure.

Consequently, the police have forbidden us from proceeding with this event. We have no recourse when police make a ruling of that sort — and we would not want to place my guests at risk of violent encounters — so we have no option but to refund ticket holders and reschedule the event for later in 2018.

I’m furious that these violent left-wing tactics are being allowed to dictate the terms and limits of debate in America, supposedly the land of the First Amendment. The police will not provide further information about the specifics of the threat, nor whether any arrests have been made. I apologize to ticket-holders. I’d picked a really cute outfit and everything. But truly free speech in America is reserved for the political Left.

— MILO

URGENT ADDENDUM TO PREVIOUS STATEMENT ABOUT PHOENIX EVENT

The wording of this announcement has been agreed with Scottsdale Police Department.

“We were informed today by the venue for my sold-out event, A Night With Milo, that Scottsdale Police Department had received a credible threat against me and were insisting that Friday’s event should be cancelled. It appears that this was not the case, and that events space operator The Venue Scottsdale deliberately deceived us in an attempt to breach our contract with them without consequence.

“When a detective from Scottsdale Police Department called the venue’s manager, based in Las Vegas, at around noon local time today, to check details about the event, a female employee responded: “The event has been cancelled because Milo is controversial.” We understand that vendors were told the event was cancelled around two hours later.

“Shockingly, The Venue then called Milo Inc this afternoon and claimed, falsely, that Scottsdale police had identified a credible threat, and claimed, falsely, that the police were insisting the event should be shut down. Multiple conversations with the officers at Scottsdale Police Department, who have been very generous with their time today, have established that these claims were not true.

“Milo Inc apologizes the officers at Scottsdale Police Department for earlier public inaccuracies, and we will be pursuing the venue aggressively for financial remedy for this malicious deception. The Milo Inc employee responsible for making our earlier reports public without checking with Scottsdale Police Department has been terminated.

“We apologize to ticket holders too — because the primary victims of The Venue’s deception was our sold-out audience. We are particularly disgusted by their behavior given that at least one ticket-holder was a member of the Armed Forces who had taken five days’ leave to attend the event from some distance away.

“We ask ticket-holders not to contact the police further on this matter.”

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Refunds are being offered and for now, Milo has no plans to try and speak in Phoenix anytime soon. The Antifa group did seem to celebrate and tip off Las Vegas Antifa (Milo’s next stop) to get to work:

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