Thirteen People Arrested at Emerson College ‘While Protesting School’s Stance on Israel-Hamas’ Conflict
“The situation escalated when a number of protesters did not comply with multiple police requests, leading to the detention of 12 Emerson students”
The protest was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine. What a shock.
Boston.com reports:
13 arrested outside Emerson College presidential inauguration while protesting school’s stance on Israel-Hamas war
Thirteen people were arrested outside of an inauguration for Emerson College’s new president Friday while protesting the university’s tuition hikes and stance on the Israel-Hamas war, school and law enforcement officials said.
Boston police confirmed to Boston.com that 13 people were arrested by Emerson College Police and booked by the Boston Police Department.
The arrests took place outside of Cutler Majestic Theatre Friday morning as some 50 protestors gathered while Emerson’s new president Jay M. Bernhardt was being inaugurated, the school said in a letter to the community sent on Friday. Twelve of the 13 demonstrators were Emerson students, the school said.
“The situation escalated when a number of protesters did not comply with multiple police requests, leading to the detention of 12 Emerson students,” Bernhardt said in the letter. “Initial reports indicate these individuals were arrested for disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct.”
All of the students had been released from custody as of Saturday, Emerson’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group said in a post on its Instagram page. In a follow-up letter on Sunday, Bernhardt said the school would not pursue charges against those arrested at the demonstration.
“We will request that the Boston District Attorney dismiss all criminal charges,” Bernhardt, the 13th president of the college, wrote. Bernhardt assumed the role of president in June last year.
Friday’s demonstration, which was organized by SJP, was protesting the “College’s tuition hikes, suppression of students and faculty, and silence on the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the group said in an Instagram post.
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“…protesting the university’s tuition hikes and stance on the Israel-Hamas war…”
Is it just me or does it sound like protest for protest’s sake? The cause isn’t as important as the resume-enhancer of being arrested while protesting.
Higher education at its finest!
Emerson College in Boston. Tuition is about $50,000 and acceptance rate is about 50%.
Emerson wants charges against the students dropped. Emerson is teaching the wrong lesson to its miscreant students.
Right. Don’t look at these arrests as any kind of progress, they’re 100% kabuki.
Emerson College has always been a hot bed of stupidity. The professors there regularly whip the kids into a frenzy over one dumb movement or another. I lived in Boston for years and could always spot the Emerson kids on the T.; they all looks the same: purple hair, endless metal in their face, and you can’t tell what gender it is. They had gender neutral bathrooms before it was cool, and the dumb kids actually raised money and protested to help the professors union at Emerson, because not enough faculty wanted to join it. I know this because I had several friends who were professors at Emerson and they refused to join the union because it was a broken system that actually held them back in their careers while only advancing a certain privldged few (you can guess who). But the union head professors got the students all whipped up and had them out there stalking the refusniks professors offices, walking out of class, storming the admin offices, and throwing eggs at their cars (yup eggs at the cars). Now ask yourself why would students care about the teacher’s union so passionately? Because they are easy to manipulate, naive, don’t ask questions, obedient, have poor social skills, few friends, and they enjoy feeling of being subversive and violent with no consequences.
“We will request that the Boston District Attorney dismiss all criminal charges,” Bernhardt, the 13th president of the college, wrote. Bernhardt assumed the role of president in June last year.
That’s a sure way to get more law-breakers. If Emerson expelled these children, the children would learn a valuable lesson and Emerson would probably be saved future disruption by law-breakers.