When does a protest stop being a protest? YMMV, but one could say that the line gets crossed when ‘protesters’ trap people inside a building, barricade the exits, and commit false imprisonment and arguably kidnapping, along with theft and destruction of public property.
That isn’t just an academic hypothetical, although academic certainly applies. A group of people that both ABC and the LA Times call “pro-Palestinian protesters” have blocked off all the points of egress from an administration building at California State University, Los Angeles, trapping workers inside overnight. Reportedly, CSULA president Berenecea Johnson Eanes is among those being held against their will. ABC’s local affiliate has both video and a written report:
Pro-Palestinian protesters have barricaded a building at Cal State Los Angeles, where the president of the campus is apparently stuck…
