And the courts have prevented colleges from acting in loco parentis for these young adults, mostly thanks to Leftist litigation.
I think the “refused to date a trans” might be it? Maybe Cold_Red_Steel is on to something there.
In any case, everyone involved should be charged with kidnapping if they refused to let him leave and physically prevented it.
I watched a movie recently called “After Hours”, a black comedy, and there is a scene where a guy is being pursued around SOHO in the wee hours of the morning by a crowd who thinks he is a thief robbing apartments. Reading this, I was kind of visualizing that.