Heather Mac Donald: Claremont speech cut short by protesters’ ‘brute, totalitarian force’
(FOX)- Conservative commentator and author Heather Mac Donald said Monday it was an “exercise of brute totalitarian force” when protesters at Claremont McKenna College shut down her speaking event last week.
“This is not just my lost of free speech. These students are exercising brute force against their fellow students to prevent them from hearing me live,” Mac Donald said on “Fox & Friends”.
Mac Donald, the author of “The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe,” said she was scheduled to speak at the college on Thursday when protesters surrounded and blocked the entrance to the Athenaeum, where the event was being held.
“I heard them chanting, ‘[Expletive] the police, KKK,'” Mac Donald recalled, adding that she was called a “white supremacist.”
Campus officials decided not to forcefully intervene and arrest students over safety concerns for the students, faculty and guests, Claremont McKenna College President Hiram E. Chodosh said in a statement.