Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Just over a week after U.S. President Joe Biden defended police crackdowns on dozens of anti-war protests on college campuses by declaring that students don't have 'the right to cause chaos,' a new analysis on Friday showed that nearly all the campus demonstrations have not been violent at all—and many that have descended into violence did so due to police interventions or aggressive counter-protests.
found that at half of those students clashed with police who had been sent in to clear the peaceful student encampments—which should have been allowed to proceed unimpeded according to Biden's speech about the protests on May 2, in which he said, 'Peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to controversial issues.'At one protest at Washington University in St.
did not find evidence of the 'disorder' Biden spoke of when he said earlier this month that 'vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations... threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fear in people is not a peaceful protest.
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