Uganda’s opposition heavyweight Kizza Besigye’s son, Anselm Kizza-Besigye and other law students at Harvard University in U.S, last weekend demonstrated against violent arrest by Cambridge Police of one of their colleagues.
The black student was arrested Friday night on charges of indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, assault, and resisting arrest.
The students accuse police of manhandling their colleague by repeatedly punching him.
This student was allegedly found standing naked at traffic island in the middle of Mass. Ave., around 9:09p.m.
Among the blacks at the university who stood against this cruel action is Besigye’s son Anselm who told the campus based publication, the Fifteen Minutes Magazine, that he is organizing undergraduate student’s collective response to the arrest.
The 19 year old was part of the meeting of BLSA students on Saturday, which was one of many of others that were organized to protest the event.
“As I’ve learned more about what’s happened, it’s just become more obvious to me that there is an acute and systematic failure on almost every level of administration to secure black lives on this campus,” Anselm said.
“When we talk about how the Cambridge Police Department responded to a medical emergency on a campus, that is absurd and it’s indicative of a much larger issue in which people don’t understand the implications of calling the Cambridge Police in a non-threatening situation.”
Back home in Uganda a section of opposition fanatics who subscribe to politics of defiance heaped praises on the teen for boldly opposing injustice just like his father who has been taking on the regime since 2001.
Veteran journalist Charles Onyango Obbo wrote on his twitter page; “ Anselm is just a freshman at Harvard, but is organising protests after cops violently arrest black student on campus. Wowe, @kizzabesigye1 and @Winnie_Byanyima have exported revolution to America!”
