Pro-Palestinian protesters criticize U of M for asking Michigan attorney general to file charges against students • Michigan Advance

“We don’t know how many people have been charged or what the charges are, but we have confirmed that U of M police have requested arrest warrants for individuals who are attempting to stop the university from funding genocide,” Eno said. “It is clear that Ono and the regents will use every tool at their disposal to silence those who refuse to participate in this. This is shameful and dangerous conduct by our supposed leaders.”

Danny Wimmer, a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, confirmed they are investigating student activities in Ann Arbor and elsewhere.

“Our department is reviewing a number of cases related to the protests around the University of Michigan,” Wimmer said. Achievement“As media reports have reported, protesters have engaged in similar activities in multiple southeastern Michigan counties and law enforcement locations, and our office is uniquely positioned to handle multijurisdictional cases in their entirety.”

A request for comment was also sent to the University of Michigan but has not yet received a response.

Members of the coalition also took part in the protests. appearing in front of the University of Michigan Board of Trustees’ housesincluding Chairwoman Sarah Hubbard and Regent Jordan Acker.

Ackers’ office was also a target vandalism in early Junealthough the coalition has not taken responsibility and no suspects have been identified in the case.

Rhiannon Willow, a graduate student and research assistant in the physics department, was one of the students arrested while clearing the encampment. She said officers “slammed me into the ground with my forehead and chin with great force, which resulted in a long-term and extremely debilitating concussion, as well as injuries to my neck and jaw that have not fully healed.”

Although no charges have been filed against Willow, she has been banned from campus for a year, which she says will complicate her efforts to complete her doctoral dissertation. However, Willow said Achievement that she, too, is now concerned about state-level charges.

“I think it’s because they know that Eli Savit’s office has dismissed these allegations, I think that’s why they’re going to the attorney general’s office,” she said. “They’re trying to make it harder for us to continue operating, and it seems like the campus bans are unfortunately quite effective because now so many of us literally can’t step foot on campus because we’re going to be arrested immediately.”

Simrun Bose, who graduated in May, also spoke but said she was among more than two dozen students who were notified in mid-May that the university had initiated disciplinary action against them for participating in a sit-in on November 17.

Bose said the university had “grossly breached its own procedures” when she alleged it forced the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (OSCR) to initiate disciplinary proceedings without receiving a formal complaint, and when it was finally filed, several weeks after the six-month deadline had expired.

“What is most bizarre is that the university representative who filed the complaint was not a student, staff member or faculty member, which again violates OSCR’s own procedural guidelines,” Bose said. “Instead, the complainant was a consultant from California who clearly has no knowledge of the events of November 17. Hiring this consultant to do the regent’s dirty work is a craven move to avoid accountability and likely violates federal privacy laws.”