Ohio Students Make Demands During Their Sit-in Protest

Liberals are outraged that a 16-year-old black teen was killed by the police. They are not looking at the circumstances of the incident, instead, they are thinking it is an officer killing a person of color. But every incident is different and should be treated as such. So a large group of Ohio State students is proving that they didn’t do their own research and have down a sit down over Ma’Khia Bryant’s death. They want Ohio State University to cut ties with the police.

The students put out a list of demands.

• Ohio State University Police Division immediately cease contracts with the Columbus Division of Police for any and all on-campus investigations, services, and events;
• OSUPD immediately cease mutual aid service contracts with Columbus police and reevaluate joint patrols to limit the presence of and the frequency of calls to CPD officers and resources in off-campus areas;
• Ohio State no longer accept federal, military-grade resources and reduce OSUPD’s budget for expenditures that may be used for further militarization, but rather reallocate the funds to further invest in student support units;
• Ohio State’s Department of Public Safety release an action plan, created with student input, that affirms the commitment to Black student safety and overall university safety through disarmed, anti-force and culturally competent practices, and;
• Ohio State acknowledges and condemns the anti-Black violence the Columbus police committed against Ohio State students and the greater Columbus community.

Watch A Clip From Their Protest.

Hundreds of students at @OhioState occupied the student union for a #BLM protest in support of violent, knife-wielding teen #MaKhiaBryant. https://t.co/Tdf84ZSf6A

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 22, 2021

Ohio State responded to the student’s demands.

“The Ohio State University Police Division (OSUPD) is the primary law enforcement agency on all of our campuses. In Columbus, we contract with the Columbus Division of Police (CPD) for specific services, largely traffic control for athletics events. We also have a mutual-aid agreement in place that allows our OSUPD to assist CPD off campus.”

You’d think more of the students would take the time to see that this was a justified shooting, but instead, they are jumping to assumptions and protesting the Ohio Police. Is this what higher education looks like now?