Dealing with Protestors at Political Rallies

In a New York Times column yesterday, Masha Gessen wrote about how Kamala Harris blew off some Gaza-issue protestors who interrupted her talk — they were summarily escorted out. Another account of the incident, which I read this morning, presented it in a somewhat different light. In any case, my view is that Harris should have asked the protestors to wait until she finished her remarks, and then she would take questions. If they continued to be disruptive rather than engage in civilized discourse, that would be the time to escort them out.