Harvard University is conducting a review of its campus police (HUPD) after officers showed up at a demonstration in central Boston, joining forces with the local police department to oversee the protest.
The review comes as student activists are calling on the university to dismantle its police forces, partly because several HUPD officers helped the Boston Police Department during a June 2 Black Lives Matter demonstration in Franklin Park. In a photo circulated in the Harvard community, one of the officers can be seen wearing a helmet and a jacket emblazoned with the department’s coat of arms, apparently monitoring the sign-waving demonstrators.
