UT-Austin President defended the response but faculty criticized the presence of armed state troopers. Fifty-seven people were arrested.
, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.at the University of Texas at Austin continued Thursday morning with faculty condemning the response, university leaders defending their actions and students planning a second round of protests.
— some Republican leaders cheered the police response, accusing the demonstrators of being"pro-Hamas" or calling the protest an"unlawful assembly." “Across the generations, our University has been home to protests of every shape and size, and to a tradition of meeting those protests with understanding and nuance — not with police batons and body shields,” the faculty group wrote. “Needless to say, we don’t believe that President Hartzell’s message to the community Wednesday night comes close to providing a justification for the University's conduct.
The faculty group told colleagues to gather Thursday at noon in front of the UT Tower, where the local Texas State Employees Union had initially planned to rally against recent laws and cuts targeting the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The union, however, said it would cede the space to pro-Palestinian protesters who are planning a second day of rallying.
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