Bricks thrown at Evanston police, Northwestern University students pepper-sprayed in off-campus clash as protesters again call on university to defund its police – Chicago Tribune*

A Northwestern University student, who asked not to be named out of fear for his safety, said, "I think it was a direct result of the inflammatory rhetoric used by (University) President (Morton) Schapiro last week in calling the protests an abomination and asking not to lose our sense of humanity. It reminded me of something I would’ve heard from a Southern governor during the civil rights marches. He said there would be swift and harsh punishment and all that.”

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