CLAYTON — Two activists who participated in a pro-Palestine protest last spring at Washington University now face charges, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office said Wednesday.
Those charged include Jill Stein, the presidential nominee of the Green Party in 2024, who is accused of hitting a police officer with a bicycle and kicking him at the protest. Stein, 74, was charged Friday with first-degree trespass and fourth-degree assault.
In charging documents, Washington University police said demonstrators were given numerous warnings to leave the university’s private campus. Officers moved in for arrests around 8 p.m. Court documents alleged Stein interlocked her arms with other demonstrators and refused to leave.
In an interview with the Post-Dispatch just days after the protest, Stein disputed accounts that she struck an officer.
“While I was being assaulted with a bicycle, one of the police bent down and picked up my foot in order to try to further destabilize me into falling backwards,” Stein said. “And I wiggled out of his grip, you know, in an effort not to fall back on my head.”
Yeah sorry you’re not going to be able to gaslight me. I’m familiar with the politics in my own country.
But good for you for being so comfortable making (ridiculous) claims that can never be proven or disproven.
By the way, even if Harris wouldn’t have made the situation better in Gaza, it would still be 10000x better than what Trump is doing and will do. That’s the gaslighting I’m referring to here.
That said, I do believe that Harris would have been at least open to discussing the situation. I know for a fact that she wouldn’t be deporting legal permanent residents for protesting. And I’m more than certain that she wouldn’t be playing AI slop videos showing “Harris Gaza” hotel and talking about leveling the place and turning it into a vacation destination.
So get your disingenuous bullshit out of here.
(Oh, I’m in an ml thread. I’ll probably get banned again for being “uncivil”)
Trump is doing the same thing that Harris would do, the genocide is bipartisan.
You hear about these “new” proposals to expell the Palestinians? They were drafted in 2023! The reason Biden didn’t attempt to do it is because no Arab country would accept 2 million refugees, and Trump will face the same obstacles.
Your daily reminder that blueMAGA don’t care about what’s actually happening in Gaza, only the domestic rhetoric their politicians use.