Evergreen professor lies about student protests on Fox News.

[Ken Burch]

(full disclosure, I am now a part-time student at TESC and will be attending full-time next year.)

The professor whose words and actions played a significant role in provoking the protests and the occupation of the college president's office appeared on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News, and claimed, falsely that the students had taken over the entire campus and threatened to use violence-claims that led to death threats from Fox viewers to various students of color on campus.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article153151069.html

(Here is a description of what occurred in the protests and the background on the events)
http://www.cooperpointjournal.com/2017/05/27/protests-on-evergreen-campus-students-challenge-racism-and-anti-blackness/

(Here is a complete list of the original student demands that led to the protests, as published in the Cooper Point Journal, the TESC campus paper. Some of these were met, although the administration refused to meet the demands for personnel changes, such as the dismissal of Bret Weinstein, and the demand to disarm the campus police)

http://www.cooperpointjournal.com/2017/05/27/complete-list-of-student-demands/

[The Polack MSgt]

1. Someone lied on Fox?

I'm sure a retraction and correction will be aired post haste

[Doreen]

2. Been in Washington all my life and about 30 minutes from Olympia and

know people who have gone there and I can tell you that usually the type of people who go there are not in anyway violent. this is a college where people strive for equality and good human treatment. the people who go there are smart and would not do things that would endanger others lives. I am old enough to know when it was referred to as the hippie college and I think to an extent it still is. I am surprised that a professor like him has even lasted very long at all. I hope they can get rid of him as he is a wrong fit for that college.

[exboyfil]

3. This is from the student newspaper

http://www.cooperpointjournal.com/category/news/

"Following a series of unsuccessful conversations with different, divided portions of the Evergreen administration over the past several weeks and years, they gathered, personally escorted and held President George Bridges, all of the Deans, the Vice President of Student Affairs Wendy Endress, a Board of Trustees representative, and the full teacher union bargaining team all in President George Bridges office for about five hours. The administration stayed in the room until demands to address the problems of systemic racism and oppression faced by minority students were agreed upon."

This is ridiculous, and I personally think the administration members should have tried to leave. The behavior is not mitigated by the later statement:

"No force was used to detain members involved in the meeting, and everyone held in the President’s office were provided with food and water, with students available to attend to any emerging needs, including medical care. The building entrances were barricaded when it seemed as if police would be on the way soon."

The author has admitted to something very close to unlawful imprisonment. If I had been one of the individuals held, I would file charges. The act of barricading seems to lead to that conclusion.

9A.40.040
Unlawful imprisonment.

(1) A person is guilty of unlawful imprisonment if he or she knowingly restrains another person.
(2) Unlawful imprisonment is a class C felony.

[Ken Burch]

4. OK...but "held" might simply have been the term that person used.

If the administrators had truly tried to leave.

It could just as easily have meant "held" as in "induced to stay by the level of support for the protests as indicated by the size of the crowds".

I GO to Evergreen. We don't have kidnappers there.