In this bluntly propagandistic video, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry congratulates his department on a night's work clearing "lawless" student protesters from the Columbia University and New York University campuses.
The association between student protesters and the homeless cuts both ways. In Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court issued a stunning restriction of the civil liberties of unhoused people, ruling that cities could institute total bans on camping and freely fine, jail, and remove unhoused people from public space.
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote on behalf of the right-wing supermajority, because camping bans do not single them out: "It makes no difference whether the charged defendant is currently a person experiencing homelessness, a backpacker on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building."
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