The 68 demonstrators arrested in Chicago on Saturday have been charged with criminal trespass, police said Monday.
Chicago police said 68 people arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest outside the Art Institute have been charged with criminal trespass.
Students from Columbia College Chicago and School of the Art Institute of Chicago briefly set up an encampment in the museum's north garden.The Art Institute of Chicago stated that despite efforts to provide protesters with an alternate location, and despite offering those who are their students amnesty from academic sanction and trespassing charges things escalated when "...
Chicago police said they negotiated for more than two hours before the Art Institute requested CPD remove the encampment at 3:30 p.m., after which officers gave protesters three warnings before going in to begin clearing the area. Demonstrators were given the opportunity to leave without arrest, which many of them agreed to. Others locked arms resisting as officers took each of them into custody.
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