Free speech advocates have blasted Abbott for sending state troopers to arrest demonstrators, but his GOP base has welcomed the show of force.
Make no mistake, Gov. Greg Abbott wanted this confrontation with student protesters at the University of Texas at Austin. He had been warning since December he would have little tolerance if what he saw on Ivy League campuses spread here.
Austin faculty condemn police response, arrests during pro-Palestine student protest 'These protesters belong in jail,' Abbott said on social media Wednesday as the arrests began, brandishing a law-and-order persona he’s crafted over his three terms as governor. 'Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period. Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled.
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