Dave, I doubt he's completely innocent, if he was the cops would not have been called! However, just from watching the video we can see that the violence was totally pointless. You clearly hear the guy telling the cops he is cooperating and will leave. At that point if the police were any good at their jobs they would have stood back and followed him out. Problems avoided, violence avoided, disruption to study avoided ...... you get the idea.

Imagine if this happened in the library in Maynooth, would you be out protesting for a change in security practices? I know I would.