CLAYTON — Two activists who participated in a pro-Palestine protest last spring at Washington University now face charges, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office said Wednesday.
Those charged include Jill Stein, the presidential nominee of the Green Party in 2024, who is accused of hitting a police officer with a bicycle and kicking him at the protest. Stein, 74, was charged Friday with first-degree trespass and fourth-degree assault.
In charging documents, Washington University police said demonstrators were given numerous warnings to leave the university’s private campus. Officers moved in for arrests around 8 p.m. Court documents alleged Stein interlocked her arms with other demonstrators and refused to leave.
In an interview with the Post-Dispatch just days after the protest, Stein disputed accounts that she struck an officer.
“While I was being assaulted with a bicycle, one of the police bent down and picked up my foot in order to try to further destabilize me into falling backwards,” Stein said. “And I wiggled out of his grip, you know, in an effort not to fall back on my head.”
It's weird that morons continue to insist that "bluemaga" is a thing.
You fell for propaganda paid by oligarchs and support genocide and discrimination based on protected characteristics... Why are you 'people' different?
There's a reason there's a saying of 'scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.'
You red maga people crack me up. You fell for propoganda paid for by Russian imperialist billionaires and aggressively spread lies and misinformation in support of a Republican genocide. Then try to deflect and whataboutism your way our taking responsibility for your actions.
Unlike you right wingers, we don't believe Russian propaganda nor Republican nonsense.
You're lost, little reddit, most people here are far to your left.
Jesus you're being insufferable. Watching you say shit I even might otherwise agree with makes me want to poke myself in the eye.
Thank you. The time to be nice was before the American 'left' decided that genocide is not only fine, it's necessary for the survival of ~~the white race~~ American democracy. Oops, almost put the nonblue maga reason there.
You use the weapons of the enemy and you're doing nothing to create the world you claim to want. Behold, a useful idiot.
Yes, you've correctly identified why Dems lost the 2016 and 2024 elections, and why they're going to lose the 2026 and 2028 elections.
Good work little buddy.