Police Clash With Anti-Israel Campus Mob at Virginia Commonwealth University
“Tents have been put up and the protesters have formed a barrier around the zone”
Like other schools, the students here took over part of campus to set up a ‘zone’ exclusively for their protest.
WRIC News reports:
VCU students set up ‘Liberation Zone’ on campus, make demands during pro-Palestinian protest
Students have set up what they call a “Liberation Zone” at Virginia Commonwealth University as part of a pro-Palestinian demonstration, joining others on college campuses across the country protesting and demanding changes over Israel’s war effort in Gaza.
The protest started Monday morning outside the James Branch Cabell Library on VCU’s Monroe Park campus, with dozens of student protesters gathering on a grassy patch in front of the library with signs, Palestinian flags and breaking out chants of “Free Palestine.”
Tents have been put up and the protesters have formed a barrier around the zone, social media posts show.
VCU’s student-led protest comes as protests on college campuses have spread across the country, with students taking part in sit-ins, putting up tent encampments and other demonstrations.
Similar to others, the VCU student protesters are demanding that the school declare support for a permanent and immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and condemn the U.S.’s “complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
The police moved in last night.
See the video below:
BREAKING:
Students are throwing bottles and other objects at the police after having stormed and taken the Cabell Library Building at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
Police moving in to make arrests pic.twitter.com/OaPmYZyx7T
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 30, 2024
Featured image via Twitter video.
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Dear protesters:
You have 60 minutes to take down tents and other items, remove barriers, and disperse before police are sent in.
Any who are arrested will be expelled. Those on student visas will be reported as expelled to appropriate authorities. Outsiders will be trespassed.
-s-
Dean T G Grizzly
Also ensure a college rep is with the police, so you can charge anyone who throws stuff with assault charges as appropriate. Also, riot charges, especially for the ringleaders.
I’m old enough to fondly miss the smell of tear gas in the morning.
I see a lot of pushing with shields, but no batons coming over or around those shields. There need to be batons or flashlights being used on violent rioters.
hickory shampoos … along with pepper spray … use the anti bear one. or pepper foam … it sticks and is a pure B*tch to get off … cuz as you wipe… it smears… nasty stuff …
used it in the prison …