University of Michigan regents cry foul after protesters target homes
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A STARTLING AWAKENING FOR UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGENTS WEDNESDAY MORNING.
BODY BAGS, FAKE CORPSES AND TOYS COVERED IN FAKE BLOOD FOUND STREWN ACROSS THE FRONT LAWNS AND AT THE DOORS OF SOME OF THEIR HOMES IN THE EARLY MORNING.
PRO-PALESTINIAN STUDENT GROUPS QUICKLY CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY.
PROMPTING THE UNIVERSITY TO ISSUE A WARNING.
CALLING THE ACT A “DANGEROUS ESCALATION” OF STUDENTS PROTESTS ON CAMPUS.
MICHIGAN’S SECRETARY OF STATE CALLED THE PROTEST “HORRIFIC AND UNACCEPTABLE.”
UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS SAY AROUND 30 STUDENT PROTESTERS, SOME WITH FACE COVERINGS, STAGED A PROTEST AT THE HOME OF ONE BOARD OF REGENTS MEMBER.
REGENT SARAH HUBBARD RECALLED WHAT HAPPENED ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SAYING:
“THIS MORNING AT 5:54 A-M A GROUP OF APPROXIMATELY 30 INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTING PROTESTERS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN’S CAMPUS ENTERED MY PROPERTY, ERECTED THREE TENTS AND LEFT BEHIND A VARIETY OF TOYS, SHEETS AND OTHER ITEMS.”
PROTESTERS POSTED VIDEO TO INSTAGRAM APPEARING TO BACKUP HUBBARD’S ACCOUNT. SAYING STUDENT PROTESTERS “HAND-DELIVERED THEIR DEMANDS” AND “HOLDING REGENT HUBBARD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE 35-THOUSAND-PLUS PALESTINIANS MARTYRS WHOSE DEATH YOU FUNDED AND PROFITED FROM.”
RESPONDING TO PROTESTERS DEMAND FOR THE UNIVERSITY TO DIVEST ITS ENDOWMENT FROM ISRAEL–
HUBBARD ASSERTED, THE BOARD OF REGENTS MADE IT CLEAR IN MARCH, THE ANSWER IS “NO!”
ADDING THE ACTIONS OF PROTESTERS “WILL NOT MOVE THEIR CAUSE FORWARD IN A SATISFACTORY MANNER.”
ANOTHER REGENT, JORDAN ACKER, RECOUNTED HIS EXPERIENCE SAYING, “PUBLIC OFFICIALS SHOULD NOT BE SUBJECT TO INTIMIDATING CONDUCT.”
ACKER SAID THE PROTESTERS HAD A LIST OF DEMANDS INCLUDING DEFUNDING THE POLICE.
PROTESTERS REPORTEDLY SCATTERED AS POLICE ARRIVED– WITH NO REPORTS OF ANY ARRESTS.
THE PROTESTS WERE HELD ON MAY 15TH– A DAY RECOGNIZED BY PALESTINIANS AS “THE MASS DISPLACEMENT” IN 1948 OF MORE THAN 700-THOUSAND PALESTINIANS AS ISRAEL WAS FORMED.
THE LATEST INCIDENTS COME MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS DISRUPTED MICHIGAN’S COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY AND AS ENCAMPMENTS ACROSS AMERICAN COLLEGE CAMPUSES ARE DISMANTLED FOLLOWING WEEKS OF PROTESTS.
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