Around 100 students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Saturday during Gov. Glenn Youngkin's commencement address.
Dozens of graduating students walked out of Virginia Commonwealth University on Saturday after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin took the stage to deliver a commencement address. Video of the Saturday morning incident shows throngs of graduates getting up from their seats and exiting Greater Richmond Convention Center as the Republican governor began talking. A few could be heard cheering the students on.
Others held signs signaling their opposition to the governor’s education policies, per reporting from local outlet WRIC-TV. The dissenters marched around the perimeter chanting, 'No books, no peace, let the knowledge increase' and 'disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest.' Later a group of graduates, many still donning their graduation gowns, ended up in a park, chanting: 'the people united will never be defeated.
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