WABI covers student walkout

WABI (Channel 5) covered a student walkout on the University of Maine campus, part of a nationwide movement to protest the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Protesters — and counter-protesters — gathered outside Fogler Library after the walk Oct. 4. “My message would first be to Susan Collins. Your constituents are speaking and if you are not willing to listen, we will get you out of your seat,” said Kirsten Daley, a protester and president of the Black Student Union. “My other message to the folks on this campus is there are people who believe you. We should be listening to survivors, we should be making sure that our Supreme Court is fair for everyone.” Charles Honkonen, president of UMaine College Republicans, had a different view. “We feel [Kavanaugh]’s been put through the ringer in the terms of guilty before proven innocent, and we live in America. We live in a state, in a country where innocence in a sense above all is cherished and upheld in our courts,” he said.