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Carnegie Mellon University officials on Tuesday issued a harsh statement condemning speech that may have incited last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, as debate over comments by some of its leading scholars raised eyebrows in academic circles across the country.
In a letter issued to the university community, a long list of administrators and deans joined CMU President Farnam Jahanian and Provost James Garrett in expressing horror at the deadly attack that left a Capitol Police officer and four rioters, including one who was shot, dead as an angry mob stormed through Washington, seeking to halt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.