Posted on 10/04/2015 1:34:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Students and community members protesting Portland State University's then-proposal to arm campus security officers in a demonstration downtown last December.
Nearly 100 students walked out of the PSU Convocation opening ceremonies to protest the administration’s decision to arm campus security last December.
Inside the Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom the diverse crowd of students chanted “Disarm PSU!” and “Black Lives Matter!” before leading the rally into the streets of downtown.
Olivia Pace, freshman at PSU and an organizer for the school’s student union who organized the event said the group’s attempts to work with administration to reverse their decision have gone ignored.
“[We] have tried for over a year to speak to the administration to try and stop the arming of campus security,” Pace said. “President Wim Wiwel and the Board of Trustees have ignored our pleas, so this is the only option left: to interrupt business as usual. President Wim asked us to have respect for the other students at the convocation. We’ve been asking for respect from the campus administration for the entire year. We’re ready to go, we’ll be working on this all year.”
Another freshman, first-year international student from Belgium, Grace Fazila joined the walkout after hearing the story of Sam Dubose, a Black man who’d been shot-and-killed by a campus police officer during a routine traffic stop in Cincinnati earlier this year.
Dubose’s killer, Officer Ray Tensing has since been indicted on the charge of murder.
“I never realized being Black was an issue until I came to the United States,” Fazila said at the Sept. 21 demonstration. “This makes me feel unsafe on campus. School should be a place of learning. You should not feel unsafe here.”
The campus officers are trained by the Portland Police Bureau before receiving their firearms.
To date, the university has four armed campus police officers: one sergeant, two patrol officers and one detective.
Last year, before approving the proposal to add armed officers to their campus, Portland State spokesperson Scott Gallagher told The Skanner said response time for the city’s police bureau in a non-emergency situation can be up to 20 minutes.
If there were an active shooter, the armed police officers assigned to the university could respond within 60 seconds, according to the university. The PSU campus is less than a mile from the Portland Police Bureau’s downtown precinct building.
While you are at it, just paint some bulls eyes on your backs.
Sure the alternatives exist. Shooters coming on campus to murder you.
Very stupid, but well meaning stupid students…..
It’s just 100 students.
They should ignore them—and I guarantee their parents would be the first to sue for lack of security if something happened.
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College has failed these skulls full of mush.
respond within 60 seconds
= = =
Don’t really believe that.
Meanwhile:
Bulls eye competition = 5 aimed shots in 20 seconds.
Hi Power = 10 shots (including a reload) in 60 seconds.
And practical pistol is way more speedy than this.
Bet none of the protestors were present for the end results of their crusade.
Expel them!
The sheep have spoken.....
Hands up! Shoot!
Portland is a wicked city, filled with self-righteous evil-doers
Hoplophobes
They are the “useful idiots”.
Why any parent is stupid enough to send their kid to college today is beyond me. Get an online degree. When Harvard students can’t pass a 150 yo grade school test I don’t really see the point to begin with. But sending your kid into a killzone and paying for the privlege is epic stupidity.
A second year freshman. Maybe she's a redshirt.
I’m really good at taking tests for some reason, so I paid next to nothing for my degrees.
Brainless twits.
NAPANOCH, N.Y.—On one side of the stage at a maximum-security prison here sat three men incarcerated for violent crimes.
On the other were three undergraduates from Harvard College.
After an hour of fast-moving debate on Friday, the judges rendered their verdict.
The inmates won.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/an-unlikely-debate-prison-vs-harvard-1442616928
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