{"id":481354,"date":"2021-05-07T11:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=481354"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:50:53","slug":"watch-libertarian-activist-detained-handcuffed-by-campus-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-libertarian-activist-detained-handcuffed-by-campus-police-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Libertarian Activist Detained, Handcuffed By Campus Police Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-libertarian-activist-detained-handcuffed-by-campus-police-officers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=481354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Handcuffs-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>A Young American\u2019s for Liberty (YAL) chairman was detained at a private college for being on campus and attempting to recruit students to his club.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On May 5, YAL\u2019s Pennsylvania state chairman Ben Heckman was told by campus police that he was violating York College\u2019s coronavirus protocol by walking on campus property with a clipboard. Heckman was informed that he needed permission from the college to walk around during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>YAL is a \u201cpro-liberty\u201d youth organization that aims to advance liberty on college campuses across the nation. They have hundreds of on-campus chapters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Shortly after being approached by police, Heckman began recording his interaction. The video shows two police officers, one of whom was calm and working cooperatively with Heckman, and a second who put Heckman in handcuffs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Watch:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7294685990338\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YALiberty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YALiberty<\/a> employee was detained by campus police for trying to recruit students to a club. <\/p>\n<p>Wait for the second officer at the end\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/62qGfTPNXu\">pic.twitter.com\/62qGfTPNXu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chrissy Clark (@chrissyclark_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrissyclark_\/status\/1390670744829497353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote readability=\"38\">\n<p><i><span>Heckman: What\u2019s your badge number?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Officer 1: My badge number is 5406 and my name is Officer Gleissl.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Heckman: Awesome. And, we\u2019re being detained for what reason today?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Officer 1: For defying trespass.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Heckman: But you did say that during non-COVID hours, you do let non-students on this campus? Right?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Officer 1: No. Right now, due to our COVID procedures, when you enter the campus we have signs that you\u2019re not allowed to be on here without permission from the college.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Heckman: Oh, so you need permission from the college? Gotchu. Thanks for your time today guys, for real. Sorry for bringing the police over here.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>**Heckman stands up from the lunch table he was sitting at.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Officer 2: Turn around for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Heckman: Turn around?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Officer 2: Yep. You\u2019re being detained.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Heckman: For what?\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Officer 2: Trespassing.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Heckman: What are you talking about? [Officer 1] said I wasn\u2019t going to be arrested.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Officer 2: You\u2019re not. You\u2019re being detained.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Heckman told The Daily Wire that he excused himself from the lunch table where he was sitting with other students because they were \u201cliterally eating lunch and now cops were standing over them.\u201d After he excused himself, Heckman was promptly handcuffed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI care about free speech deeply, especially on college campuses,\u201d Heckman said. \u201cThis is an example of police officers using excessive force.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Heckman said that he was cooperating with the first police officer and was taken by surprise when the second officer handcuffed him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>YAL\u2019s chief of staff Sean Themea said that if this were \u201csome radical leftist group,\u201d such as Antifa or the Young Democratic Socialists of America, Heckman would have been treated differently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Unfortunately, fighting for liberty is not always as easy as getting sign ups and spreading the ideas with a smile on your face,\u201d said Sean Themea, YAL\u2019s chief of staff. \u201cThis comes just weeks after another one of our chapters was completely shut down by the woke mob at Skidmore College. Make no mistake: If YAL were some radical leftist group, we would not be facing treatment like this from busybody administrators and tyrannical campus cops.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Young American\u2019s for Liberty (YAL) chairman was detained at a private college for being on campus and attempting to recruit students to his club.\u00a0On May 5, YAL\u2019s Pennsylvania state &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277529,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Handcuffs-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Libertarian Activist Detained, Handcuffed By Campus Police Officers","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Handcuffs-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Libertarian Activist Detained, Handcuffed By Campus Police Officers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}