Criminal Charges for Trespassing Dropped Against Anti-Israel Brown Students After Palestinian Student Shot in Vermont
“In a statement to 12 News, Brown University explained that it requested the city drop the charges against the students ahead of their scheduled arraignment Tuesday morning.”
This makes zero sense. These two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
The criminal charges against 20 Brown students arrested for trespassing on campus earlier this month have been dropped after a Palestinian student was shot in Vermont over the weekend. https://t.co/mmTjhO5lfE
— WPRI 12 (@wpri12) November 27, 2023
WPRI News reports:
Trespassing charges dropped against 20 Brown students
The 20 students arrested for trespassing during a demonstration at Brown University earlier this month are no longer facing criminal charges, 12 News has learned.
In a statement to 12 News, Brown University explained that it requested the city drop the charges against the students ahead of their scheduled arraignment Tuesday morning.
Brown University made the request less than a day after a Palestinian student was shot in Vermont during Thanksgiving break.
The victim, identified as 20-year-old Hisham Awartani, was among three college students injured while visiting his grandmother’s home in Burlington. The suspect, 48-year-old Jason Eaton, has since been apprehended and the shooting is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
“The vicious attack against one of our students over the weekend in Vermont is reverberating across campus,” Brown University wrote. “There is so much confusion, fear and anger being felt right now that we feel this is a time to bring our community together and try to set aside issues that are exacerbating tensions and division on our campus.”
“Dismissing the charges against the students certainly won’t heal the rising tensions on campus from the ongoing violence in the Middle East, or the hurt and fear from Islamophobia, antisemitism and acts of anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian violence,” the statement continued. “But perhaps it can help refocus attention on other issues that are important for the Brown community.”
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Don’t apply to Brown.
Don’t attend Brown.
Idk much, but I do know that this has to be just the tip of a very dysfunctional iceberg.
It will not end well.
You’re wrong that it makes no sense. They did exactly what they intended to do all along using a random, unconnected, event as an excuse because they thought it would sound better with an excuse than without.
See? It makes perfect sense when you look at it from the point of view of the perpetrator.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Let the criminals off, and beat the drum to take guns away from people who are not criminals.
Brown has charges dropped against Brown Shirts.
Great leadership! You never know when psychotic Vermonters might show up in Rhode Island! Those poor anti-Israel protestors barely escaped with their lives!!! Good thing the Brown University administration recognized the danger in time. Yeah, those are the people who I’d choose to lead me out of a dicey situation.
Fox News is reporting that one of the dead Palistinians in Vermont was a Browns student. Which at least provides some connection. Not sure one death means a pass for twenty others in a totally unrelaated incident, but then I don’t have a Ph.D.