CNN’s Kayyem: Use of Law Enforcement Should Be Limited, We Need to De-Escalate Anti-Israel Protests

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KAYYEM: “Police know how to do this. When they’re pushed, they’re just standing a line and that’s — you know, this is — this is — you know, as I said to John yesterday, these — None of these things are ideal. I’m just looking at this from the perspective of what could be your worst case scenario. As a parent of college kids, any parent watching this, anyone who remembers Kent State, the interaction of student protests with law enforcement, can turn violent, we don’t want this whatever our viewpoints are about either the protesters or the counter-protesters. So we are seeing attempts to de-escalate this kind of energy and — and disruptions that we’re seeing. And as I said, students who are acting unlawfully, who are not following time and place restrictions ought to get arrested, and they will be arrested. What we saw yesterday, and what we’ve seen elsewhere is lots of students don’t want to get arrested, and with appropriate crowd controls and the appropriate use of law enforcement, which I generally think it should be limited, and I think we have — are beginning to see that now as compared to two weeks ago, we can de-escalate.”