3 weeks ago
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President Biden is speaking Thursday successful antecedently unscheduled remarks connected assemblage campuses earlier leaving for events successful North Carolina.
The president's remarks travel arsenic pro-Palestinian protests person been held astatine assemblage campuses nationwide, resulting successful constabulary breaking up encampments astatine immoderate schools and arrests.
Over 100 group were arrested connected Wednesday nighttime astatine nan University of California, Los Angeles, aft hundreds of protesters defied constabulary orders to time off and astir 24 hours after counter-protesters attacked nan shelter encampment connected nan campus.
The chaotic nighttime astatine UCLA came aft arrests successful New York City astatine Columbia University and City College.
The White House has condemned unit and antisemitic rhetoric astatine immoderate of nan protests, while saying students person nan correct to protestation peacefully. White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre has near decisions and consequences astir nan protests up to assemblage presidents.
"They person a correct to peacefully protestation arsenic agelong arsenic it's wrong nan law, and that it's peaceful," Jean-Pierre said successful Wednesday's property briefing. "Forcefully taking complete building is not peaceful. It's conscionable not."
The president is heading to Charlotte and past Wilmington.
Kathryn Watson
Kathryn Watson is simply a authorities newsman for CBS News Digital based successful Washington, D.C.
