Pro-Palestinian protest at Ole Miss ends in heated confrontation
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Mississippi became surrounded by a larger and rowdy group of counterprotesters Thursday, and had to be escorted into a building by police.
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Mississippi became surrounded by a larger and rowdy group of counterprotesters Thursday, and had to be escorted into a building by police.
Videos of the protest posted on social media show the larger crowd, of about 200 seemingly mostly white young people, surrounding and shouting down the multi-racial group of between 30 and 60 pro-Palestinian protesters.
Another video showed the counterprotesters singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” to drown out the chants from the pro-Palestinian protesters, while yet another video showed a large crowd of men, including two male students who appear to be white, in American flag overalls, yelling in the direction of a Black female graduate student. In the video, the woman appears to be walking toward the crowd while recording them on her phone.
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator records counter-protesters on the University of Mississippi campus Thursday.Antonella Rescigno / The Daily Mississippian via APThe woman and the two men, whose identities NBC News has not independently verified, did not respond to requests for comment.
On the right side of the frame, another man can be seen jumping up and down and appearing to make a noise to simulate an ape. That person has not been identified.
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