If the students are convicted, it would set a precedent for prosecuting pro-Palestinian organizers across the US.
People film demonstrations as an NYPD officer surveils them at the City College of New York as the NYPD attack its protest camp on April 30, 2024, in New York City., the Manhattan district attorney’s office dropped felony charges against nine pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at City College’s encampment on the fateful police raid orchestrated on April 30. Thirteen protestors, however, could still serve felonies, including up to nine years of jail.
That all changed on April 30 when City College President Vincent Bordreau sent an email to the NYPD, telling them toWe were first locked inside CCNY. Police presence intensified inside and outside campus. Public safety maced protesters, its own students, and.
That is: the impact of these charges extends far beyond CUNY; if successful, they could set a dangerous legal precedent, de-incentivizing pro-Palestine student organizers on a state and national level with the threat of felony convictions. Meanwhile, as the last of the American encampments are cleared, the US-backed settler colonial genocide in Gaza is accelerating. The IOF attacks the Jabalia and Nuseirat refugee camps with impunity, while famine intensifies throughout the Strip. The Zionist imperialist war has targeted Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria, and will likely invade South Lebanon in August. U.S. troops have been reported on the ground in Gaza since October, demonstrating not only U.S.
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