Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful

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"nearly 100%" is probably as close as you can get without actually observing every protest from beginning to end including all behaviors of everyone present

What does nearly mean 99% 90% 70% or can we go as low as 51% and call that nearly 100%. Its purposefully is vague as shit. I've seen videos of violence so i can say for 100% certainty its not 100% peaceful.

Just over a week after U.S. President Joe Biden defended police crackdowns on dozens of anti-war protests on college campuses by declaring that students don't have "the right to cause chaos," a new analysis on Friday showed that nearly all the campus demonstrations have not been violent at allβ€”and many that have descended into violence did so due to police interventions or aggressive counter-protests.

The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) examined 553 campus protests that took place across the U.S. between April 18-May 3 and found that fewer than 20 resulted in serious violence or property damageβ€”meaning that 97% of the protests remained non-violent.

Jeez louise, all you had to do was read 2 paragraph...

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ive been to many protests and violence in my experience has always (exactly 100%) been perpetrated by counter protestors or the police

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