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Michael Sainato

California professor says charges over pro-Palestinian protest show ‘failure in leadership’

Overhead view of mass of people, with one half in olive green with green helmets.
Police move to remove pro-Palestinian protesters and an encampment at UC Irvine on 15 May 2024. Photograph: Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Register via Getty Images

As riot police arrested 50 people during a May 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of California, Irvine, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was escorted away by riot police, her hands zip-tied behind her back.

A video of the tenured professor speaking passionately to reporters as she was arrested circulated widely on social media. “We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy,” she says in the video. “These police officers out here today – that’s thousands of students’ scholarships.”

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