Raucous protest against David Duke at Dillard University leads to pepper-spraying

A raucous group of Dillard University students and supporters Wednesday night stormed the outside of a Dillard auditorium where ex-Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke and other contenders for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate seat were holding a televised debate.

Tensions were high as critics decried the fact that a white nationalist was using a historically black university as a platform for his views.

A smaller group of students pleaded with their classmates to ignore Duke, a figure they said was undeserving of any sort of spotlight.

At least four people were detained by campus police but later released. Other students and alumni were pepper-sprayed as they tried to forcibly enter the building where Duke would take the stage.

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