Pro-Palestinian protesters criticize University of Michigan for calling on Michigan attorney general to file charges against students • Michigan Advance

“We do not know how many people they have filed charges against or what those charges are, but we have confirmed that the University of Michigan Police Department has requested warrants from the Attorney General’s Office for criminal charges against 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 cooperate. This is shameful and dangerous behavior from our supposed leaders.”

Danny Wimmer, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office, confirmed they are investigating the students’ activities in Ann Arbor and elsewhere.

“Our department is reviewing a number of cases involving protest activities around the University of Michigan,” Wimmer told the Advance payment“As has been reported in the media, protesters have engaged in similar activities in multiple counties and prosecutors’ offices in southeast Michigan, and our office is in a unique position to review cases involving multiple jurisdictions in their entirety.”

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

Coalition members also took part in the protests Performance in front of the University Council buildingsincluding Chair Sarah Hubbard and Regent Jordan Acker.

Acker’s office was also the target of Vandalism in early Junealthough the coalition did not claim responsibility and no suspects were identified in this case.

Rhiannon Willow, a PhD student and research associate in the physics department, was one of the students arrested during the camp’s clearance. She said officers “slammed my forehead and chin into the ground with force, causing a long-lasting and extremely serious concussion, as well as injuries to my neck and jaw that have still not fully healed.”

Although no charges were filed against Willow, she was barred from campus for a year, which she believes will make it difficult to complete her doctoral thesis. However, Willow told the Advance payment that she, too, is now concerned about charges at the state level.

“I believe that knowing that Eli Savit’s office has dismissed these charges, that’s why they’re going to the attorney general’s office,” she said. “They’re trying to make it harder for us to move forward, and it seems that the campus bans are unfortunately quite effective because now so many of us are literally not allowed to set foot on campus or we’ll be arrested immediately.”

Also speaking was Simrun Bose, who graduated in May, but said she was one of more than two dozen students who were told in mid-May that the university would take disciplinary action against them for participating in the Nov. 17 sit-in.

According to Bose, the university “blatantly violated its own procedures” by forcing the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (OSCR) to initiate disciplinary proceedings without receiving a formal complaint. By the time one was finally filed, weeks had passed since the six-month deadline had expired.

“The most curious thing is that the university representative who filed the complaint was not a student, staff member or faculty member, which again violates OSCR’s procedural guidelines,” Bose said. “Instead, the complainant was a California-based consultant who apparently had no knowledge of the events of November 17. Hiring this consultant to do the Regent’s dirty work is a cowardly attempt to avoid responsibility and potentially violates federal privacy laws.”