University Of Chicago Students Set Up ‘Occupation,’ Demand Campus Police Be Disbanded

University of Chicago students staged an “occupation” demanding that the school’s provost, Ka Yee Lee, abolish the campus police department and expand the school’s commitment to diversity — but not everything is going smoothly for the student group.

A similar group of protesters occupied the University of Chicago police department’s offices earlier this summer as part of national anti-racism and anti-police brutality demonstrations that happened in response to George Floyd’s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. That occupation was cut short, however, when UChicago campus police refused to allow “occupiers” to get pizza deliveries while inside their building, according to The College Fix, and did not allow occupiers to use the building’s bathroom facilities, forcing them to choose between standing for social justice and relieving their bladders.