It was another busy day of protests at public universities across Central Texas.Students continue to demand their schools stop investing in manufacturers supplying weapons in the Israel-Hamas war.
TXST Communications Director, Jayme Blaschke said, "Texas State University Police are here and they are overseeing the event-- Texas State University being a public university, has protocols in place."But, it was a different story just 45 minutes up the road at the University of Texas at Austin."We were protesting this van leaving with a bunch of our arrested fellow students and after they couldn't push us back further I saw the mace," said UT student, Maddox Real.
Maddox Real said he experienced something even worse, "one of the cops just started raising it point blank at our faces, me and one other person just go, 'mace!'"administration for not bringing that same reality.Nieves added, " knowing that I'm not going to get removed from campus permanently just for using my First Amendment right."
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