D.C. police just schooled a university on freedom of speech rights
D.C. police just schooled a university on freedom of speech rights © DEepak kumar blogs D.C. police showed the rest of America how to respond to this historic wave of campus protests across the nation: They did nothing. And it was perfect. While other police forces are providing highlight reels of enforcers marching on university quads in riot gear (from California to New York, Illinois to Texas) or galloping in on horseback (just Texas), officers carrying and dragging students away or shockingly slamming an Emory University professor to the ground in Georgia, the cops here in the nation’s capital gave the ivory tower a lesson in constitutional rights. A pro-Palestinian protester is arrested at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas, on Monday. © Deepak kumar blogs “This activity has remained peaceful,” a D.C. police spokesperson said, explaining why there have been no arrests at the George Washington University campus, despite the administration’s r...