At California State University, Los Angeles, pro-Palestinian protesters who blocked the exists when employees were inside a building said, “This is not a hostage situation.” Uh, yes, that’s exactly what it is.

By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)

June 13, 2024

In an age when people can self identify as something other than what they actually are, protestors who trapped employees inside a building are claiming, “This is not a hostage situation.”

Uh, yes, that’s exactly what it is.

CNN just reported: (the bolding is mine)

After weeks on campus, pro-Palestinian protesters entered and barricaded the Student Services Building at California State University, Los Angeles, Wednesday, video from CNN affiliate KABC showed.

A group of 50 to 100 protesters barricaded the exits on the first floor and blocked off areas around the building, university spokesperson Erik Frost Hollins told the Los Angeles Times. The university asked employees on the upper floors to shelter in place, Hollins said.

A small group of staff members were staying Wedneday night “to handle the situation,” the Times reported.

Demonstrators “don’t want folks inside the building,” a protester told KABC, saying, “This is not a hostage situation.”

This most definitely is a hostage situation.

I hope the federal government sends 1,000 armed law enforcement officers, arrests every single one of these hostage takers, and prosecutes them to the full extent of the law. I hope they all get put in prison for as many years as the law allows.