Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours.
But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan and other students were being suspended after their arrests at the “ Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” a tactic colleges across the country have deployed to calm growing campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
The students’ plight has become a central part of protests, with students and a growing number of faculty demanding their amnesty. At issue is whether universities and law enforcement will clear the charges and withhold other consequences, or whether the suspensions and legal records will follow students into their adult lives.
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It’s a risk that shouldn’t exist when practicing freedom of speech in a peaceful manner.
Not all of them have been peaceful, and it’s still private property and they can ask you to leave, with legal consequences if you don’t. And a lot of the rhetoric and chants have advocated violence.
Which chants or rhetoric by protesters have advocated violence?
The ones made by zionist counterprotestors as a false flag. Because they know they have no ground to stand on, they need to deceive the rest of the country to get the support they need
I almost replied with that lol, I wanted to see if they had a genuine example but I’m sure they don’t.
The consequence should be the inconvenience of protesting. Even if you’re willing to go to jail doesn’t mean you want to.
Is it just to be jailed for protesting genocide?
No. But you wear your arrest like a badge of honor, not ask for your record to be cleaned so you can go back to your capitalist 9-5, and protest on weekends
No, and that you thought it might have been is the scariest thing to me. This is why people should exercise their rights, otherwise the population doesn’t even know what rights are there and which aren’t. And not knowing those rights, can’t see them being encroached.