A Northwestern University assistant professor is speaking out Thursday after she was charged criminally for allegedly obstructing police after participating in the protests.
ByFour people have been cited with misdemeanors after the April Northwestern University pro-Palestinian encampment on Deering Meadow in Evanston.on Northwest University's campus earlier this year are employees of the university, one of the staff members confirmed to ABC7 Thursday.
It was three months ago, when most students were still in class, that protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict swept college campuses around the country, including Evanston's Northwestern University. Northwestern reached a deal with demonstrators to end the on campus protests, but Northwestern Assistant Professor Alithia Zamantakis said that was not the end of it.
The assistant professor said Northwestern University police read her Miranda rights in her on-campus office. Zamantakis believes the charges are a violation of the academic freedom educators and students are supposed to have at the school.
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