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As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too (www.npr.org)

submitted 6 months ago by snarf@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.

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[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What, even if it’s an actual peaceful protest?

[–] flipht@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Especially if it's peaceful protest.

Gotta build the narrative that these are disruptive individuals. If they won't do it themselves, the universities and states will just lie and hope that it will be enough to sway public opinion against the protestors.

[–] BaldProphet@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's a difference between a peaceful protest and camping on the quad. These protesters aren't being arrested for protesting, they're being arrested for setting up their encampments and disrupting the other students who are simply trying to get an education.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Different people will have a differing view of what classes as a peaceful protest though…if a country wanted to arrest people for non peaceful protest, surely it would need to be written into law?

[–] BaldProphet@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Not sure what you are asking. The university told them to leave, and they didn't. They are now trespassing.

If they simply left the private campus property and continued their protest in a legal manner (i.e. not camping on private property) they wouldn't have been arrested.