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After the University of Texas called in police — some descending on campus on horseback, others clad in riot gear — to disperse a student-organized pro-Palestine protest April 24, arresting 57 ...
Occupy Texas State is a student activist group formed at Texas State University - San Marcos. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is distinguished from the off-campus but allied Occupy San Marcos . Occupy Texas State utilizes the principles of peaceful protest that began on October 5, 2011 [ 3 ] in the Quad around the " Fighting Stallions ".
A protester yells "Free Palestine" as she is handcuffed by police during a demonstration in April at the University of Texas. In the wake of pro-Palestinian protests in the spring, and after an ...
The Occupy movement has been met with a variety of responses from local police departments since its beginning in 2011. According to documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, [1] the FBI, state and local law enforcement officials treated the movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat [2] and used fusion centers [3] and counterterrorism agents to investigate and ...
Colleges around the U.S. implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency Monday, as police made more arrests at the University of Texas and ...
On May 31, 20-year-old African American Texas State University student Justin Howell was shot in the head with a less lethal bean bag round by an APD officer while protesting outside police headquarters in Austin, Texas. Chief of Police Brian Manley said they were aiming at another protester and shot Howell by mistake. Fellow protesters were ...
Still, activist students are finding other ways to protest, emboldened by the rising death toll in Gaza and massive protests this month in Israel to demand a cease-fire. Tensions over the conflict have been high on American campuses since the war began on Oct. 7, when Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 250 hostage.
Two days later, police arrested seven protesters in an administration building. [174] [175] A small encampment was set up at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on May 1. [176] Three days later, a protest was held at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in response to a professor who had been injured by police at Washington University ...