US protests: Campus crackdowns, Gaza protests and the free speech debate
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Pro-Palestinian protesters are demanding their universities cut ties with Israel or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson gets eyewitness analysis from US correspondent Mark Stone in George Washington University. They discuss the arrests, tear gas and counter-protest violence that is taking over universities.
Plus, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, a historian at the University of New Orleans and author of ‘Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars’, looks at how these protests compare to others the US has seen and analyses if the action could lead to change.
Producer: Soila Apparicio and Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 1:02.4 | Officers from California's Highway Patrol, they're now just a few metres away from the perimeter of this encampment. |
| 1:14.2 | Now that's Martha Kellner, Sky's US correspondent, |
| 1:16.9 | covering the pro-Palestinian protests |
| 1:19.0 | and the University of California, Los Angeles campus, |
| 1:22.0 | in the early hours of this morning local time. |
| 1:24.7 | Just going to focus on this woman in front. |
| 1:30.6 | She is a pro-Palestinian protester and she is refusing to move for the California Highway |
| 1:39.6 | Patrol. |
| 1:40.6 | UCLA, just the latest university to see protests of this type, and they're turning ever more tense and even violent. |
| 1:47.8 | She is now edging backwards. |
| 1:51.6 | She appears to be kneeling down, perhaps in prayer, at the feet of the California Highway Patrol. |
| 1:59.3 | I'm just going to leave that image with you. |
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