Campus security must stop attacking students - UJ academics

[schumi]

Johannesburg - Academics at the University of Johannesburg have called for an end to attacks on students by campus security during protests.

"I think heavy handedness and the kind of securitisation we have seen on campuses has been extremely repressive and it needs to stop," political theorist Dr Ayesha Omar said onn Friday.

Several academics participated in the picket in support of the free education movement.

Academics, dressed in their academic regalia, marched from the institution's Auckland Park campus onto the busy Kingsway Street, distributing pamphlets to motorists.

They held placards which read "Stop all violence" and "Funding must rise #FeesMustFall".

They were later joined by a small group of students who sang familiar student protest songs.

Two police vans monitored the picket from a distance.

News24
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...stop-attacking-students-uj-academics-20161007

 

[Sinbad]

Yes, don't attack students. But if you see a criminal, **** them up.

 

[FoXtroT]

These academics make me sick. Spineless apologists.

 

[rietrot]

Next time when the criminals brake or burn something just sent these guys out there to ask the students nicely to stop.

 

[LazyLion]

How many more university halls you going to let them burn down?

 

[CeeBee]

Yes, don't attack students. But if you see a criminal, **** them up.

for sure... act like criminal, expect to be treated like one
these hooligans need as much hard handedness as it takes to get it into their thick skulls not to f* up private property, and even more so not to f* with other people's rights