White House Denounces Takeover of Building by Columbia Protesters by Emel Akan – US Politics News

WASHINGTON—The White House on Tuesday denounced the protests at Columbia University as “not peaceful,” calling the occupation of an academic building by pro-Palestinian demonstrators the “wrong approach.”
“The president believes that forcibly taking over a building on campus is absolutely the wrong approach. That is not an example of peaceful protests,” White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a call.
“A small percentage of students shouldn’t be able to disrupt the academic experience, the legitimate study, for the rest of the student body,” he said. “And they certainly deserve to be able to graduate and participate in a graduation ceremony.”…