Most of the demonstrators arrested Wednesday at a pro-Palestinian protest on the University of Texas at Austin campus have had their charges dropped, officials and lawyers said. Nearly all of the charges were for criminal trespass, a misdemeanor, alleging protesters failed to heed warnings to disperse.
Pro-Palestinian protesters at UT Austin arrested by Texas state troopers. School threatens disciplinary action Travis County Attorney Delia Garza said Thursday that her office was presented with 46 arrests for criminal trespass in connection with the protests, and the court declined all of them for lack of probable cause. “We will continue to individually review all cases presented to our office to make determinations on whether prosecution is factually and legally appropriate,' Garza said.
Why were Texas state police called to a pro-Palestinian protest at UT Austin? Citlalli Soto-Ferate, a senior and member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee who was released, said she and another student had been arrested while talking to each other. She said she was not informed by the police why she was under arrest at the time. “We pay tuition on this campus. I pay these people’s salaries,” said Soto-Ferate, whose shoulders were draped in a Palestinian scarf known as a keffiyeh.
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