Furious that police had entered the NTU campus to arrest students without so much as a nod to proper legal procedure, Fu protested at the highest levels of the KMT leadership. He said the police could not arbitrarily arrest people without carefully established proof, and even with such proof, the university president's approval was required before NTU students could be arrested.
事發當時，傅斯年對當局不經任何法律程序就進入台大校園內逮捕師生十分不滿，親自找國民黨最高當局進行交涉，要求沒有確鑿證據不能隨便捕人，而即使有證據，要逮捕台大師生也必須經過校長批准。