A student at UCLA tells Sky News that his arrest has not deterred him from continuing in demonstrations, saying the 'protests in general are part of the American spirit'.
Much has been said about the students whose protests have gripped America this past week. Their cause has been framed in polarising ways. A violent Hamas-sympathising mob? Or peace activists striving for equality? Within a frenzied spectrum of views and noise, one young student sat down with me for a conversation. Aidan Doyle, 21, is a philosophy and jazz double major at the University of California in Los Angeles .
And if we were to just stand around in circles and sing and dance, and pretend everything was fine, then nothing would change and nobody would care at all. 'Part of a protest is causing disruption and causing at least a minor level of chaos that is, again, not violent but that actually disrupts things.
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