Why is the simplest explanation of campus protests so hard to accept?

Over the weekend, New York Police Chief of Patrol John Chell took to social media to offer thoughts on the college campus protests that his department had a role in disrupting a few days before.

“Who is funding this? What is happening? There is an unknown entity who is radicalizing our vulnerable students,” he wrote over a photo of university encampments. “Taking advantage of their young minds. As parents and Americans we must demand some answers! I can’t speak for the rest of America, but in NYC we won’t rest until we find out!”