Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein arrested for assault at Wash U student protest

[Fantine]

So now our country will have two candidates in court during campaign season! Surely we can do better than this.

While I believe that President Biden could do more to put pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to engage in a cease fire to prevent the widespread civilian death, starvation, and homelessness in Gaza, nothing could ever convince me to vote for Stein and risk making Biden's principal opponent president--someone who is plotting mass deportations and prison camps using Netanyahu's playing card.

MSN

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says she was charged with assaulting a police officer after she attended a pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday. According to a statement by Washington University, 100 individuals—including 23 students and four university employees—were arrested on Saturday when they “refused to leave after being asked multiple times.”

“All face charges of trespassing and some may also be charged with resisting arrest and assault, including for injuries to three police officers who sustained injuries including a severe concussion, a broken finger and a groin injury,” the statement added.

 

[iluvatar5150]

I wonder if cops are ever embarrassed at how low the threshold for “assaulting an officer” is.

 

[rambot]

I wonder if cops are ever embarrassed at how low the threshold for “assaulting an officer” is.

Judging from anecdotal stories....and court records stemming from BLM arrests, they likely should be (or frankly, many of the arrests stemming from protests). They use arresting as a means of controlling; weaponizing the justice system. So long as there are no direct physical threats to individuals, why shouldn't they be legally able to protests? And if there are take those INDIVIDUALS away.



To more directly address the OP:

Feeling lazy but I'd want to read the police report of the incident to see how awful this is. I would say it ain't GREAT.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I wonder if cops are ever embarrassed at how low the threshold for “assaulting an officer” is.

Right. Concussion and broken bones and groin injuries to police is a pretty low threshold.

 

[chevyontheriver]

So now our country will have two candidates in court during campaign season! Surely we can do better than this.

While I believe that President Biden could do more to put pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu to engage in a cease fire to prevent the widespread civilian death, starvation, and homelessness in Gaza, nothing could ever convince me to vote for Stein and risk making Biden's principal opponent president--someone who is plotting mass deportations and prison camps using Netanyahu's playing card.

Almost three quarters of the protesters arrested were from outside the University. Wondering how many shouted “Death to Israel” at this highly Jewish campus?

 

[Laodicean60]

Almost three quarters of the protesters arrested were from outside the University. Wondering how many shouted “Death to Israel” at this highly Jewish campus?

I hear there are other groups stirring up trouble and not affiliated with the school. I think we need to see who is backing them.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Right. Concussion and broken bones and groin injuries to police is a pretty low threshold.

What are you talking about? That's not even the threshold for assaulting a civilian.