Politicians are terrified of the protests, but they are even more terrified by the prospect that the protests could continue past the end of the school year, spilling over the bounds of the campus and into a long, hot, summer. It is the responsibility of anyone trying to stop this genocide to ensure that their nightmare becomes a reality.
Well, yeah, that's true of all intelligence agencies. I just mean they probably got some dirty shit on people so they blackmail them into support.