Students

Equal Justice Under Law is written across the front of the Supreme Court building. There are college protest going on all over the country but the experts say punishment for protesters will be different in different states. Some district attorney's say it will be too difficult to prove charges like trespassing. Students have the right to protest in certain campus areas, but occupying a building constitutes trespassing. Enforcement of these rules is seldom applied equally. Many people who participated in the summer riots of 2020 were not prosecuted even though property damage was in the millions. Minneapolis is still trying to rebuild and the city is paying for most. The responsibility for much of the destruction was not clearly assigned. On MPR the scene was described by saying that the police station suddenly caught fire. It must have been spontaneous combustion. They are not only hesitant to punish the offenders they don't even want to assign blame. A good compromise would be to jail those protesters who were not students and let the others go free.