Professors Arrested During Protest at U. Texas at Dallas Sue University Alleging Retaliation
“the professors also claim violations of the fourth and first amendments, arguing that they were unlawfully arrested without probable cause”
The article is short on details about the protest, but the image makes it clear that this was an anti-Israel protest.
The Guardian reports:
Texas professors arrested at campus protest sue university, alleging retaliation
As the Trump administration and Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, restrict free speech on college campuses, two professors at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) are suing the university for retaliation stemming from 2024 arrests at a peaceful campus protest.
History professors Ben Wright and Rosemary Admiral argue they should not have been arrested in the first place at the 1 May 2024 demonstration, where they were standing between their students and heavily armed law enforcement.
Following the arrest, the professors say their university engaged in retaliation by severely restricting their access to campus, vaguely ordering that classroom instruction and “employment/research related activities” were the only permissible reasons for them to show up at work.
“UTD wrongly banned these plaintiffs from campus entirely at first, falsely claiming a court required that,” said the professors’ attorney, Christina Jump. “No court required that.”
The professors’ 29-page complaint, filed in a district court in Texas, names UTD and the University of Texas system as defendants, as well as former UTD president Richard Benson, current president Prabhas Moghe, Abbott and Ken Paxton, the attorney general. In addition to allegations that the defendants violated their civil rights, the professors also claim violations of the fourth and first amendments, arguing that they were unlawfully arrested without probable cause and later faced retaliation for peacefully protesting.
The lawsuit arrives amid the Trump administration’s assault on higher education, as well as similar attacks by Abbott. In Texas, recent bills and executive orders have stripped faculty senates of their power, limited “expressive activities” such as protests to certain hours of the day, and called upon universities to adopt a broad definition of antisemitism.
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“An assault on higher education.” LMAO. LOL, even.
They consider themselves to be the entity “higher education.” Morons.
Moron:
“Coined by psychologist Henry H. Goddard, it referred to adults with an IQ range of 51–70 (mild intellectual disability).” Grok
you’re being very kind.; imbecile or idiot may come closer to the truth
That’s not a biased account at all.
gop in power yet our money continues to fund the lefty