Amherst College Students Stage Walkout Over Daunte Wright and Call for Abolishing Police
“From this country’s beginning, society has determined that Black citizens need to be controlled and white citizens need to be protected.”
Abolishing police is a dumb idea. Who would these students call if Amherst College was under attack?
The College Fix reports:
Amherst College students stage walkout to protest Daunte Wright killing, call for police abolition
Roughly a week after the Amherst College Police Department said it would not cede to student demands to disarm, students walked out of class to demand the department’s abolition … and to protest the killing of Daunte Wright in Minnesota.
“Hundreds of students,” all donned in black, joined the protest. The event was organized by the Black Student Union, The Amherst Student reports.
Wright allegedly was shot dead when, after resisting arrest and attempting to flee in his car, a police officer used her gun instead of her taser. In audio of the encounter, the officer in question can be heard yelling “Taser! Taser! Taser!” but then exclaims “Holy sh**! I shot him!” upon realizing she had used her gun.
Black Student Union (BSU) President Ayodele Lewis told walkout participants “We can’t be expected to attend class any longer as our brothers and sisters are slaughtered in the streets by designated state violence across the country, across the globe.” (During the virtual town hall at which the campus police refused to disarm, Lewis questioned whether there’s any difference for students of color between police officers and so-called Community Service Officers … as she had once been “approached aggressively” by the latter.)
Council of Amherst College Student-Athletes of Color President Bella Edo claimed Wright was shot and killed “for no reason other than his Blackness.” She said “We live every day with anger and devastation. Our own people being killed while negotiating with the fear that we might be next.”
Senior Eve De Muheto added “From this country’s beginning, society has determined that Black citizens need to be controlled and white citizens need to be protected. The police are instrumental in enforcing this racial hierarchy.”
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They’re so cute when they’re angry…
They’re stupid when they’re angry.
And they’re angry all the time.
One good thing about remote learning and working is that the peer pressure associated with these “movements” is not as much, and students will not feel physical danger by ignoring them and in this case can attend the classes that their parents are paying for.
Everyone is protected and nobody has to be controlled. Police are not put at risk having to try to control trouble.