On the 9th of March, protesters returned to Univ of S Florida’s Tampa campus, setting up on Fowler Ave so university cops would lack the ability to enforce “trsspass” notices stemming from Mondays brutally violent arrests. Speakers (including several arrested or assaulted Monday by police) demanded all charges from Monday’s violent police attack be dropped unconditionally, and that the University meet their original demands to stand up to DeSantis, increase Black enrollment, protect trans students, and continue diversity programs.

In addition, students are demanding the USF police chief Chris Daniel be fired for elbowing a protester in the back while twisting their wrist-and for no doubt ordering all the other police violence. He was himself caught on video committing that assault.

These activists will no more shut up in response to police violence than the heroes defending the Atlanta Forest will. DeSantis is the enemy of anyone in Florida who is not white, cishet, and an “in-solid” evangelical Christian. Any university administration that submits to his demands is also the enemy and should expect to be treated as such.