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Tyler Hicks

Texas professors arrested at campus protest sue university, alleging retaliation

people lined up waving flags in front of police
Protestors chant as law enforcement dismantle an encampment by pro-Palestinian students at the University of Texas at Dallas's Chess Plaza in May 2024. Photograph: Juan Figueroa/AP

As the Trump administration and Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, restrict free speech on college campuses, two professors at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) are suing the university for retaliation stemming from 2024 arrests at a peaceful campus protest.

History professors Ben Wright and Rosemary Admiral argue they should not have been arrested in the first place at the 1 May 2024 demonstration, where they were standing between their students and heavily armed law enforcement.

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