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.
Then again you weren’t dodging bullets shot by liberal creations at the time you were testing ;)
It’s nice to see a college administration that has chosen to play the part of adult and not just give in to the children. Their position seems to be: At least Protect them while we take their money for teaching them nothing. Not the worst thing I guess even if the children don’t understand adult speak.
Oh wait, my bad. That statement was for the university’s armed officers, not the idiots protesting. So yes, local cops would have a better response time than only Portland PD, but they still have way more than a 60sec respond time. I know SMU is a 10min walk across campus, so I’m sure jumping in a car and driving around is still longer than 60sec.
No, I don’t remember being shot at then, even when I was testing in Korea, which I did quite a bit.
I would guess that a couple of students there are worth something. But considering it’s a ‘who you know’ school, I doubt you need to resort to a calc to count’em all.
What does that sign say?
“Very stupid, but well meaning stupid students…..”
You fall into a trap when you give “progressives”/leftist credit for being well meaning. They want to tear down anything that is good, decent, sensible, productive.
The problem is the good guys are always giving the bad guys credit for their good intentions. And the bad guys vilify those with good intentions.
Damning to the American school system that it is more dangerous a place than a potential hot zone.
All liberals should be caged. No exceptions.
“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";
So what? 99% of colleges would not have the guts to tell the brothers they lost. It was fixed from the start.
Too stupid to disregard their mediocre-minded professors.
Yea I’m sure that Harvard simply blew off the fact that a $200,000 education not up to the standards provided by a prison library.
Probably used it as a recruiting video...
Not.
Morons. Whatever—it’s their funeral.
Pub lick skools indoctrinated them to fail before they got to college.
WINNING!
None of the 'Black Lies Matter' crowd are well meaning.
““I never realized being Black was an issue until I came to the United States”
Then go back where you came from, asshole.
L
60 Seconds? Not even.
This explosively criminal condition has existed for so long, it needs no fuse; it fuses itself; it spontaneously combusts from within itself. . . . "
Ah, to be young again—and save the world—They think they are, and that’s what counts to them.
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