Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) compared current law enforcement reactions on campuses to the 1970 Kent State University massacre.
Saturday was the 54th anniversary of National Guardsmen opening fire on Kent State students who were mid-protest. At the time, students were protesting the bombing of Cambodia. Four people were fatally shot, and another nine were injured. While many students have been arrested in recent weeks in the name of pro-Palestinian causes, none have reported injuries or deaths as a result of clashes with police.National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at Kent State.
On the 54th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre, students across our country are being brutalized for standing up to endless war.Other activists joined in, including failed congressional candidate Nina Turner and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights President Maya Wiley. Turner included the victims’ names of the May 4, 1970, incident, who were Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Knox Schroeder.
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