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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like the PP wasn't fearmongering: [url]https://claremont-courier.com/latest-news/da-charges-19-claremont-colleges-students-stemming-from-april-5-protest-78760/[/url][/quote]
FWIW, only seven of the 20 protestors were Pomona students.

I understand why charges were pressed: Safety. To my knowledge, the 5Cs never prosecuted any encamped protestors or forcibly removed the encampments, which likely violated trespass laws, probably because of free speech concerns and because the encampments themselves didn't pose a safety concern. But when 20 students storm into an individual's office, there are legitimate safety concern that override free speech policies. (Analogue: the January 6, 2021 storming of the Capital.) There's a huge distinction between (a) peacefully camping and/or marching in public spaces with placard signs, etc. and (b) physically barging into a building and then an individual's office. The protesters knew or should have known this as it's common sense. [/quote]

This is way off topic for a discussion of CS but “physically barging into a building” is a weird way to describe walking into a building and IIRC the president wasn’t even in her office when they first showed up. [/quote]
Correct. Students walked into Alexander (which is a general administration building that they are allowed in) and began protesting. Gabi was off campus and came,  because Vice President Hinkson was called a racially slur (allegedly c**n) by a black student. She then tried blocking students from going up the stairs and they tried pushing past her.

If the president had the balls to say she was scared and felt her personal safety was at risk (at this point the entire building is evacuated and the administrators are seen having a good lunch at the Coop Fountain- the student center, they were in perfectly fine health), id have more respect. Students in the past have chained themselves to the staircase of Alexander, so this is actually a tame event compared to back in SA apartheid times. [/quote]

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