Campus Protesters Try to Silence Conservative Speaker, Demand College President’s Resignation

Natalie Johnson / @nataliejohnsonn / February 26, 2016 / 162 comments



Protesters barricaded entrances to a theater where Ben Shapiro was giving a lecture Thursday afternoon.
(Photo: Jacqueline Pilar/Young America’s Foundation)

 

Student protesters swarmed California State University, Los Angeles to barricade the entrances of a theater where conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was set to deliver a speech about censorship and diversity on college campuses.  Led primarily by the school’s Black Student Union and Black Lives Matter chapter, the hundreds of demonstrators, including some professors, poured into the Student Union building Thursday afternoon to block other students from attending the event. Many in the dense crowd of protesters shoved and shouted at attendees who tried slipping through the doors.  Members of the conservative Young America’s Foundation, host of the event, called “When Diversity Becomes a Problem,” said they were forced to sneak groups of four to five in the back door leading directly to the theater to avoid catching the attention of protesters who hadn’t yet obstructed the last entrance.....

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My Take - When are these cowardly university officials going to learn.....they more they give in to these radical crybullies the more they will demand and the more unrest there will be.  And professor Melina Abdullah, a professor and chair of pan-African studies at the university, should be fired for promoting this unruly mob.