From the video, here are quotes from the event organizer Therese Purcell:
"I realized I was the target for these protestors and 200 of my fellow students started hunting me down on campus, chasing me, screaming 'go get her, go get her, go capture her, get the girl in the red dress'..."
"While this was all happening the mob continued to chase other members of our club, YAF, they physically assaulted one of our board members. They kicked him, they punched him..."
From
Mediaite here's what was said in a statement put out by the university:
The University at Buffalo said in a statement that they are “conducting a thorough review” of West’s time at the university. Members of the university have a right to express themselves, they added, but “not in such a way as to limit or prevent the speaker’s freedom of expression or interfere with university operations.”
Here are some links from local TV stations on what happened:
AMHERST, N. Y. – The University at Buffalo Police Department is investigating reports of harassment following a visit by Colonel Allen West last week. The former Republican congressman was invited to speak on-campus Thursday by a conservative student group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). The...
wutv29.com
WASHINGTON (TND) — A student at the Univeristy at Buffalo is speaking out after she says she feared her own life when protests escalated on campus during an event featuring Lt. Col. Allen West and his lecture titled “America Is Not Racist: Why American Values are Exceptional. ” Therese Purcell...
mynbc15.com
WASHINGTON (TND) — A student at the Univeristy at Buffalo is speaking out after she says she feared her own life when protests escalated on campus during an event featuring Lt. Col. Allen West and his lecture titled “America Is Not Racist: Why American Values are Exceptional. ” Therese Purcell...
local21news.com
WASHINGTON (TND) — A student at the Univeristy at Buffalo is speaking out after she says she feared her own life when protests escalated on campus during an event featuring Lt. Col. Allen West and his lecture titled “America Is Not Racist: Why American Values are Exceptional. ” Therese Purcell...
abcnews4.com
If this is the kind of assault on free speech you all support, then please step up and say so.
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