re: HBCU Graduation Canceled

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Assuming the video is telling the truth about the times, cutting off access before 5pm for a 6pm ceremony does seem a bit extreme.

There appears to be a lot of people at the entrance, including graduates, so it wasn't just a few straggling family members.

That doesn't excuse acting like idiots and getting the whole ceremony canceled, but it seems like there's more to this story.

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It was a failure of the school. They didn't issue tickets or in any other way limit attendance (e.g., max of 4 per graduate or something). So, a relatively small venue was overcrowded. While true that people who arrived early got in, the crowd that wasn't let in wasn't necessarily late based on some announced cut off time.

They made a graduation ceremony first come first served and should have predicted that based on the venue size this would result in some pissed off people who drove/flew in to see their family graduate. Now, that doesn't justify trying to bust down the doors, but people were predictably pissed.