After keeping quiet for weeks regarding the violent anti-Israel protests that have popped up on college campuses nationwide, President Biden delivered brief remarks on Thursday from the White House.
“There is a right to protest,” Biden said, in his most extensive remarks since the campus protest movement began. “But there is not a right to cause chaos.”
“Destroying property is not a peaceful protest, it’s against the law,” Biden said. “Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation, none of this is a peaceful protest.”
Biden said the National Guard should not intervene.
Watch Biden’s remarks below:
BREAKING: In first remarks over protests at US colleges, President Biden says he supports free speech and peaceful assembly but is against violence: "There's the right to protest, but not the right to chaos." WATCH pic.twitter.com/yg0ybOLKNu
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