“Law enforcement from coast to coast is being tasked with carrying out a compl
with carrying out a complex choreography: How to protect the constitutional right to free speech, while navigating volatile and potentially unsafe social unrest.”
At Portland State University, protesters barricaded themselves in a library. The Washington Post asked, “Will riot police swarm that situation, too? Or will school leaders — like those at Brown University — find a way to stave off a massive escalation by agreeing to consider the protesters’ demands?”where the University would vote on divesting funds from companies connected to the Israeli military. The encampment was dissolved peacefully.
Notably, the New York Police Commissioner said Columbia University is private property and that “decisions on what to do on that property are up to the university,”that “While sympathetic media tried to make the students appear less radical by distinguishing between the encampment itself and the crowds who were gathered outside the gates of the university, this was a distinction without a difference.
“In California, masked men attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment… and students criticized police for not intervening sooner. Fifteen injuries, including a hospitalization, were reported after officers quelled the violence,”The Washington Post. “The police responded nearly two hours later — a delay that California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted as ‘unacceptable.
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