Current and former University of Texas at Dallas students are suing school leaders and police officers over their arrests while protesting the war in Gaza and for allegedly suspending the university’s chapter of a pro-Palestinian student organization.
The lawsuit, filed in the federal Northern District of Texas Friday, accuses UT Dallas police officers of using excessive force while arresting students last year. The plaintiffs also accuse police, along with former university president Richard Benson, current president Prabhas Moghe and other school officials, of maliciously prosecuting the students and violating their First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
