Campuses’ anti-police tactics make it harder for law enforcement to do their job

Eleven people were injured Monday, one critically, after an Ohio State University student plowed his car into bystanders, jumped out, and began stabbing.

That horrifying scene could have been far worse. As divine providence would have it, an armed campus policeman was on hand, investigating reports of a gas leak, and he was able to shoot the attacker dead within a minute.

That officer’s heroism saved the day — but if campus protestors at Ohio State University and elsewhere got their way, such an armed intervention would have been impossible. The university and its students have been overtly anti-police in the past year, and other activists nationwide have called for campus police to be disarmed altogether.

This semester, several OSU students hosted an on-campus “die-in,” in an attempt to call attention to killings of people of color by police. Other students participated in a march to the mayor’s office, decrying police brutality and demanding that the police budget be slashed.

“It’s important that we hold the cops mother-f*cking accountable,” one woman majoring in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at OSU raged to the student newspaper in September.