Talked with leadership about the protests in Colorado today, nobody said; "the arrests on Friday were a mistake" but they did say; "they immediately returned and are still there"..
The problems that will generate a response is the disruption of learning or teaching and the obvious stuff like violence or hate speach, not officially but those are the rules that were quoted. They also card locked the buildings so that students could access and use the toilet but non students can't, that's to keep the protest a student protest apparently and perhaps reduce the encampment impact.
My campus is across town and I mentioned that the armored response did nothing to keep things calm and head nods all around. We read my email to the chief and his response into the record as well. All in all I think that leadership learned quickly from Friday and is acting fairly and appropriately at this point.
Also and I can’t stress this enough - the “violence” you’re seeing on campuses over the last few weeks? It’s because the cops are rolling in with their bullshit to break up peaceful demonstrations guaranteed by our fucking first amendment
No question about it, this happened at #UniversityOfColorado in #Denver today, 40 people arrested and hopefully the judge chucks the whole stupid shit out because PROTEST IS LEGAL. #Colorado