Former NCAA star swimmer Riley Gaines spoke to Dan Dakich on OutKick's 'Don't @ Me' about the harrowing incident at San Francisco State University.
NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines discussed the harrowing incident at San Francisco State University on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich."
"I give my speech and, of course, there’s many protesters in the room. But I welcome protesters. I welcome people with different perspectives," Gaines said."That’s why I choose to go somewhere like San Francisco. I know a lot of them won’t agree with me but that’s who I want to get in front of. That’s who I want to change their minds to see from my perspective. So there was lots of protesters and it was relatively civil. There was some heckling. But it was good.
"She’s pushing me along. We exit the classroom into the hallway to where it was filled with more protesters – I’m talking hundreds. We could not exit the building. We were on the third floor and the stairways were packed. We had to resort to going into another classroom along that hallway where I was barricaded in for three hours."Gaines detailed what happened in the three hours she feared for her life inside a classroom, not knowing if she was going to be able to leave.
"The dean of students, the administration, the university – they handled this poorly. Extremely poorly. And since then, they released statements saying they are so proud of their brave students for handling such a controversial situation so well and being so peaceful. And they actually said the police force was excessive and uncalled for and that I was the one spreading violence. It just shows you how universities and how administrations in the direction they’re going.
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