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.”
No, instead you pick the "no genocide" option. Quite telling that you'd pick "less genocide"
Only sensible thing u said so far
Except that's not what you did. You chose to knowingly throw away your vote instead of giving it to the one candidate that had a chance of winning and possibly making the situation in Gaza even slightly better.
Stop pretending that you give a single shit about Palestinian people beyond using them as pawns in your misguided, ideological purity tests.
There is no chance Harris would have made the situation in Gaza even slightly better. This genocide is bipartisan.
But under Trump, Israel will become even more isolated. Mexico just recognized Palestine. Would that have happened under Harris?
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.
The best option you have if you're playing by the rules is to pick the least bad option of the parties that can actually win, and then change that into the "no genocide" party.
Picking the least bad option is how we got the choice between genocide and less genocide in the first place
We shouldn't be playing by those rules. That's how we got here in the first place.