Lawmaker Demands Apology For Penn State President's Hands-Up Gesture At Student Protest

[Purveyor]

Article by: Associated Press
Updated: December 9, 2014 - 9:00 PM



STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A Pennsylvania lawmaker is demanding that Penn State University's president apologize for making the "hands up" gesture associated with nationwide protests over the killing of an unarmed black Missouri teenager by a white police officer.

University President Eric Barron joined students at a "die-in" protest outside the school's Old Main administration building last week. He was photographed joining students who put their hands up in protest of the August death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.

Republican Rep. Jerry Knowles of Schuylkill (SKOO'-kul) County says Barron's gesture was disrespectful and a "slap in the face to law enforcement."

Barron says he supports law enforcement but adds there's "a portion of our population who feels more vulnerable by virtue of their appearance." He says he was showing solidarity with the student protesters.


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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. FUCK YOU Republican Rep. Jerry Knowles

[Kalidurga]

2. Since Barron doesn't seem willing to offer Rep Jerry Knowles a proper apology...

I would like to offer him my hand in apology.

ps it's not really my hand.

[Turbineguy]

3. Maybe

shoot first, ask questions later is a slap in the face to law enforcement, that is the many who actually believe in the law.

[Takket]

4. did he demand an apology when it came out members of the university were trying to cover up

child rape?

[Downwinder]

5. Give Rep. Jerry Knowles a Rockefeller salute.