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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.”

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[–] yunxiaoli 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you ever find yourself on a side that's pro genocide, you're the bad guy. There might be worse guys, but probably not. Being the team of 'well they're promising to not genocide me so let them have some genocide as a treat' does worse than nothing, and historically hasn't worked out so well.

If two parties are the pro genocide parties, then you logically cannot support either. It's worth voting third party to register your displeasure, while working towards other goals that will hopefully bring real change when the opportunity arises.

In any case nothing is ever solved or improved by genocide. So any option with genocide is the worst option among the infinite things you can attempt to do.