I like this story, a lot:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-professor-johns-hopkins-student-protest-fired-bolt-cutter-20190811-5khyw4amwvfphoduanytuiifzy-story.html
“A Johns Hopkins University associate professor has been fired for attempting to break up a student protest with bolt cutters. Daniel Povey — who until recently was a research professor at the Baltimore school’s Center for Language and Speech Processing, part of the university’s Whiting School of Engineering — reportedly acted because he feared that his research stored on servers cut off by the protest would be lost. The dust-up occurred in May between Povey and students protesting the school’s relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a state legislature bill that enabled Johns Hopkins to create an armed police force on campus. Students were in the middle of a month-long sit-in that shut down Garland Hall, Johns Hopkins’ main administrative building, which housed servers containing the research of several people, including Povey, according to The Baltimore Sun. On May 1, the protesting students “locked down the building, chained the doors shut, covered the windows and forced the administration building to close during the final week of the university’s spring semester,” The Sun reported.