Police arrested hundreds of protestors in recent days. Early Tuesday morning, Columbia University students seized a university building, smashing windows and lowering an “Intifada” banner. Police forcibly reclaimed the buildings later in the day.
On the West Coast, authorities on Thursday morning finally permitted police to remove an encampment of protestors on UCLA’s campus.
Trump, who is running as the law and order candidate against President Joe Biden, told reporters before entering a Manhattan courthouse that radical “morons” should not be allowed to “take over this country.”
Protests seem to be growing in volume and violence. Unrest beset Utah, Virginia, Arizona, North Carolina, and Florida colleges in recent weeks.
