79 arrested amid second crackdown on UT-Austin campus

Authorities arrested 79 people during the second police crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of Texas at Austin since last week, according to the Travis County Sheriff’s Office.

Law enforcement warned protesters they would arrest them for criminal trespassing if they didn’t disperse. Officers eventually marched down on the protesters, dragging dozens of them before deploying pepper spray and flash bang explosives to disperse hundreds of people. From left, University of Texas at Austin students Ana Maria, Piper Leleux, Daniella Alfonso and Eliza Sommers camp outside of the Travis County Jail on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, as they await the release of pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested Monday from an encampment on the UT-Austin campus.Piper Leleux, a UT-Austin sophomore who was also in the crowd outside the jail waiting for her boyfriend to be released, said they hadn’t initially planned on being at Monday’s protest.

Leleux said she found herself stuck in a crowd of people when police started to pepper-spray the area. She said she accidentally ran into a cop and was trying to apologize when the officer elbowed her in the face. “I noticed one of my friends get pepper-sprayed and the skin on her arm starting turning red and burning,” Alfonso said.“I wasn’t expecting someone we know to get arrested and charged with criminal trespassing. We pay to be there,” Alfonso said.

"The University strongly supports the free speech and assembly rights of our community, and we want students and others on campus to know that protests on campus are fully permissible, provided that they do not violate Institutional Rules or threaten the safety of our campus community," a statement from university officials said Tuesday.

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