Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Cori Bush, D-Mo., compared the police response to the anti-Israel protests to the Kent State shootings on Saturday.
“54 years ago, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at Kent State,” Omar wrote on the social media platform, X . “Students have a right to speak out, organize, and protest systemic wrongs. We can’t silence those expressing dissent, no matter how uncomfortable their protests may be to those in power.”
May 4 is the 54th anniversary of the day that four students were killed and nine injured after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd of students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University.
“On the 54th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre, students across our country are being brutalized for standing up to endless war,” Bush wrote on X. “Our country must learn to actually uphold the rights of free speech […]
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