Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein was arrested with greater than 100 others at an anti-Israel protest on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, her marketing campaign mentioned.
Stein, together with marketing campaign managers Jason Call and Kelly Merrill-Cayer, had been all arrested at the student-led encampment quickly after the candidate recorded a video saying they had been going to “stand here in line with the students who are standing up for democracy… human rights… to end genocide.”
Jill despatched this video shortly earlier than the police began arresting college students and supporters at Washington University: pic.twitter.com/A1nUfDRUs9
— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) April 28, 2024
Dramatic footage captured from the protest exhibits law enforcement officials utilizing a bicycle as a barricade, roughly pushing up in opposition to Stein and different demonstrators, earlier than main her away.
Over 100 college students and group members violently arrested at the WashU encampment tonight, together with Jill Stein who was brutalized by a police bicycle. pic.twitter.com/xwhoQjOWqe
— Cinthia Romo Alba 🍉 (@cromoalba) April 28, 2024
BREAKING: Jill Stein and her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager, Jason Call and Kelly Merrill-Cayer, have been arrested at Washington University in St. Louis whereas supporting a protest in opposition to WashU’s ties to the conflict on Gaza.
Video from @KallieECox pic.twitter.com/rkUYC9b5Qx— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) April 28, 2024
“The demand from the encampment was specifically for the university to divest from Boeing, which manufactures munitions used in the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza at their nearby St Charles facility,” Call told Fox News. “The Stein campaign supports the demands of the students and their peaceful protest and assembly on campus. Student protest for peace and civil liberties has always represented the best part of our collective moral conscience. Solidarity.”
The outlet reported that “more than 100 people” had been additionally arrested at Washington University, as many different comparable demonstrations happen at different campuses across the nation.
The University of Texas at Austin suspended their pupil’s Palestine Solidarity Committee on Friday after a number of campus protests noticed almost 60 trespassing arrests final week, Breitbart News reported.
On Thursday, anti-Israeli protesters established an encampment at George Washington University (GWU), in Washington, DC.
The nationwide protests had been primarily fueled by the main encampment at Columbia University in New York City, which canceled all in-person courses Monday after police arrested greater than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
🚨🇺🇸 NYU STUDENT PROTESTERS – WHY ARE YOU PROTESTING?
STUDENT #1:
“I don’t know. I’m pretty sure there’s something about Israel… Do you know what NYU is doing? [Looks at friend] Why are we protesting?”
STUDENT #2:
“I wish I was more educated.”
#1:
“I’m not either.” pic.twitter.com/g2TlZo9yJW
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 24, 2024
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