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Philadelphia Students Say National Guard Presence on Campus Makes Them ‘Feel Unsafe’

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Philadelphia Students Say National Guard Presence on Campus Makes Them ‘Feel Unsafe’
A National Guardsman stands near the Lake St. Midtown metro station after a night of protests and violence following the death of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 29, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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6/3/2020|Updated: 6/3/2020

Students at Drexel University in Philadelphia are complaining to administrators over the use of a state-owned building on their campus as a National Guard headquarter, saying the presence of the troops makes them “feel uncomfortable and unsafe.”

The Guard members, who have been deployed to Philadelphia in response to the city’s growing levels of unrest, now occupy a building known as “the Armory,” which is owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and historically served as a recruiting station and command center for the National Guard’s 103rd Engineering Battalion.
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Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.
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