NYPD: We're Handling Columbia Students 'with Kid Gloves' to Avoid 2020 Repeat

NYPD: We’re Handling Columbia Students ‘with Kid Gloves’ to Avoid 2020 Repeat


On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry stated that the Columbia demonstrators “are kids” and “we are handling them with kid gloves, as you will say,” because they don’t want things to turn into a situation like in 2020, but “if they try to pull this rhetoric on the street or setting up encampments” that won’t happen.

Host Trace Gallagher stated, [relevant exchange begins around 5:15] “[I]t’s kind of one of those things where you have to walk a very fine line, because we remember back to the Black Lives Matter protests and the arrests that were made and then the lawsuits that were filed against the New York Police Department and the millions of

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