It’s ironic that police, acting at the behest of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, employed a bit of Cuban-style totalitarianism with students seeking to peacefully make their views known to the presidential candidate Friday.

Police on the campus of Florida International University ordered students demanding a “free Cuba” far away from a theater hosting a speech by Clinton and out of earshot when she emerged.

In the speech, Clinton was calling on Congress “to end the trade embargo the U.S. has imposed against Cuba for decades,” CBS 4 reports.

Clinton accused her Republican rivals of approaching Cuba and Latin America “through a Cold War prism.”

“They have it backwards: Engagement is not a gift to the Castros; it’s a threat to the Castros,” she said in her remarks. “An American embassy in Havana isn’t a concession; it’s a beacon. Lifting the embargo doesn’t set back freedom; it advances freedom.”

But not all were buying that. Outside, protesters denounced Clinton’s views.

Video published by Campus Reform shows protesters being ordered to a “free assembly area” blocks from the speech.

In the video, there’s confusion about exactly where the protesters can stand.

“If you stay here, you’ll be subject to arrest,” an officer can be heard saying as he’s trying to get the protesters away from the Wertheim building, where Hillary was appearing.

The video shows the protesters chanting “Human rights for Cuba!” across the street — several hundred feet away — with police standing in front of them.

“Essentially, the police corralled us away and continually moved us back, but thankfully there were some passionate advocates who have been abused by the Castro regime that continued to be vocal,” Rey Anthony of the organization Free Cuba Foundation tells Campus Reform.

Anthony said he found it “insulting to a Cuban community like ours to come to our community and speak right across from a memorial that commemorates hundreds of people that fell to the Castro regime.”

FIU’s Sebastian Arcos, who works with the school’s Cuban Research Institute was also critical of Hillary’s policy.

“It’s not a good idea to make concessions unconditionally to a regime like Cuba,” Arcos tells CBS 4.  “It’s as simple as that.”