Melina Abdullah, a Black Lives Matter-L.A. leader and tenured professor at Cal State L.A., was removed by police from Sunday's campus mayoral debate.
“Professor Melina Abdullah and her companion were not on the guest or media list for the event. They bypassed all on-site check-ins and entered the theatre. An event organizer informed the pair twice that they could not remain. The two did not leave,” the statement said. “When public safety officers asked them to leave, Professor Abdullah’s companion complied. When Professor Abdullah ignored requests to leave, she was removed from the building by public safety officers and immediately released.
“I wasn’t dressed for a protest; I was dressed for a debate,” she said, noting that she had been wearing sandals. In classes and at organizing training, Abdullah said, she teaches participants that they should always wear tennis shoes when they go to a protest. Leda Ramos, a professor in the school’s Chicano studies department, criticized the decision to call campus police on Abdullah and said images of police carrying her out against her will “traumatized faculty and students.” Ramos took particular issue with the message that the university was conveying to Black faculty and students and characterized the removal of Abdullah as “blatant discrimination.
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