Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Northwestern Educators Arrested Over Campus Pro-Palestinian Encampment
“It’s a pretty mind-blowing experience to have your employer send their own police after you to arrest you within your place of employment”
We just got news of these arrests three days ago and the charges have already been thrown out. It must be nice to be a leftist.
WBEZ News reports:
Prosecutors drop charges filed by Northwestern police against educators involved in campus encampment
Cook County prosecutors have dropped the criminal charges against four educators arrested by Northwestern University police earlier this month and accused of obstructing law enforcement during the pro-Palestinian encampment on the Evanston campus in late April.
A representative from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office said in an email that the decision not to pursue the charges filed by Northwestern police is consistent with the office’s policy not to prosecute peaceful protestors.
A university spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Court records show the cases were dropped on Friday, just one day after WBEZ reported on the arrests.
“It’s a pretty mind-blowing experience to have your employer send their own police after you to arrest you within your place of employment,” Alithia Zamantakis, an assistant professor at Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, said before the charges against her were dropped.
Northwestern police filed the misdemeanor charges in early July, months after the encampment was dismantled through an agreement between protesters and university leaders. Court records show the educators were released from custody on the same day of their arrests.
“It has the appearance that Northwestern waited over two months to make these arrests and file these charges under the cover of summer when students aren’t here, people aren’t paying attention as much,” said Josh Honn, a librarian at Northwestern and another of the four individuals whose charges were dropped today. “The timing makes it seem like Northwestern wants to take action but not have any accountability for their actions.”
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Of course they did.
They need to save the jail space for the Jan 6 rioters, who are all given unusually long sentences.
At the end of the article:
“said Josh Honn, a librarian at Northwestern and another of the four individuals whose charges were dropped today. “The timing makes it seem like Northwestern wants to take action +++but not have any accountability for their actions+++.”
It sounds like those whose charges were dropped and complained about being arrested in the first place did not want to have any accountability for their actions.
Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbein
^^^^^that right there^^^ should be a violation of the law
It’s pretty mind-blowing that faculty would be condoning, let alone supporting such activity and obstructing police. Why didn’t they think of that before they did what they did?
Because they knew they had their friends in enough places there would be no consequences for them.