Arrests made, charges dropped at UT Austin Palestine protest

A pro-Palestine protest at the University of Texas at Austin led to the arrest of 57 people for criminal trespass, but the Travis County Attorney's Office later dropped all charges due to lack of sufficient probable cause. The university suspended the Palestine Solidarity Committee, citing alleged violations of institutional rules, and those arrested may face restrictions on campus activities despite the dropped charges.
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[@demetriusc5676]

We need an American Union for Americans that support America 🇺🇸

[@tens0r884]

If you support America so much then protest against the 3.8B in military aid you give to israel you d*mbf*ck

[@wyosundancer]

What a shame. Free speech is not saying you will kill someone or support someone killing someone.

[@zitoScine]

But it is saying “Stop the Genocide”, “Defund Israel” and “Free Palestine” and that’s what the overwhelming majority of protesters are saying, and banners showing.

[@Brucev7]

@@zitoScine "Death To America" Taking Down US Flags, Not OK. Shì de Tongzhi

[@Cuban20]

@@AJXOXO-vz1pnI guess the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust if were using your logic. Because they had Jewish Resistance Fighters who killed Nazis.

[@Cuban20]

No one is talking about Violence against anyone. They are talking about Ending Violence. I see Israel has another US Idiot online to shill for them.

[@TeranRealtor]

@@zitoScine From the river to the sea is what they mean when they say Free Palestine. When someone says Let's Go Brandon - do you think they are cheering Brandon on?

[@hummingbirdredhand6729]

Even if they were released and charges dropped, they will ALWAYS have an ARREST record 😅 That's not going to age well 💀

[@possumverde]

Badge of honor.

[@123jac]

@@possumverde they are already marked and the government will get them later.

[@tens0r884]

@@123jac look at these anti government/ small government "pro free speech" conservatives everyone ^^^

[@benjaminacuna7484]

THE COPS WORK THEIR ASSESS OFF AND THE JUDGE LETS THEM GO!!!!!!!

[@ferdinandsiegel4470]

The constitution has limits on freedom of speech.

[@masescranton9630]

The D.A. Needs to be removed.

[@MD-mm1zv]

Charges dropped? Well of course. What’s new?

[@dash007]

yup

[@dash007]

Link in bio

[@tens0r884]

You dont know your own first amendment, whats new

[@GerrieM23]

It's ridiculous charges were dropped. But don't worry it will all be paid tax dollars. It's a disgrace 😮

[@IFD24]

I will not let my child go to a woke college

[@runninrebel1520]

Thee aren’t even students at UT….

[@devonnkeith]

If you support gennocide DONT COMPLAIN ABOUT HITLER THEN !

[@Cuban20]

Actually a bunch of them have made arguments for Hitler online. Which is sickening considering he killed their own ancestors. They're ancestors are turning in their graves in shame.

[@طهحاج-ج5م]

نعم

[@jammzy2959]

Hitler is dead. Who is complaining about him? What else can he do?

[@FLUKdaDEMS]

@@طهحاج-ج5م What is that scribble S? 🤷‍♂️

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

Hamas and Nazism what's the difference?

[@zm5513]

All charges dropped ?? What a waste of time .. the police should just let them poop and live on campus .. who cares…. I feel sorry for the Jewish students

[@Cuban20]

You feel sorry for a bunch of loud mouth, narcissistic Zionists hiding behind their religion for everything. But not Palestinian men, women, and children. Shame on you. Edit There's Jewish students in the encampment. This "antisemitism" horseshit doesn't work anymore. Nice try though.

[@street_cheeks]

hating the constitution is next level anti American, bud

[@defconsupply3990]

Gotta love woke prosecutors

[@FLUKdaDEMS]

POS COWARDS!

[@street_cheeks]

free speech is krypton to reiche wing ding dongs

[@reignman0311]

#failedgeneration #fjb

[@steviedfromtheflyovercount4739]

Dropping charges? Really. This will never stop.

[@theshart4778]

Can't spell gutless without UT

[@AJXOXO-vz1pn]

That’s true. You also can’t spell gut less without the word gut and the word less.

[@brushcountryoutdoors6543]

The suspension is due to the fact that there were people there that weren’t even students. PSC is a Branch of HAMAS

[@street_cheeks]

hahahahaha! didn't get accepted to college rh?

[@Salvadormtz619]

Idiots think that the war is going to change because of all the ridiculous protests 😂😅

[@itzelouise8714]

Hamas doesn’t exist is a product of your imagination just like the land god gave you 🤷‍♀️

[@محمدمعننعمان]

“Was the kitchen anti-Semitic?”

[@daveotuwa5596]

Yaaas. It's always anti-Semitism in this land. Jews would have the first bites of a cheeseburger.

[@joshua1935]

The rich always get away with shit

[@audiovice2718]

How dare they express they’re right to free speech. Do you know what the the 1st amendment is?

[@luciaspaetgens1366]

​@@audiovice2718...tell us...74 illegal..brutal..international.. USA-WARS against the own people..!and little states who can't defends theirselves....!.....😢😢😢

[@luciaspaetgens1366]

THIS COPS ARE WARRIORS ALSO..JUST LIKE THE WHOLE DEMOCRATS!..WARRIOR 1 OBAMA+HEL CLINTON.......WHAT SICK BRUTAL LEADERS..AND NOW SILLY BIDEN..😮😢oldgran

[@TheTrumpmancometh2024]

@@audiovice2718The 1st Ammendment was not written in Palestine fucktard !

[@shimacoody4089]

Not peaceful

[@heathurquhart635]

People are saying their it's our constitutional right why are they hiding their faces if they're right what are they ashamed of their parents seeing their face on TV

[@kayobrien1294]

They don't even know what they are protesting for, don't know what their chanting means and couldn't find Israel or The Gaza Strip on a map if there life depended on it!! Talk about an idiot shit show folks, we have one right here on the Univ. Of Texas campus!! Don't waste your money, send it to Texas A&M!! A school ALL Texans can be proud of and they actually learn something!! That's why one day all these liberal longhorns will be calling an Aggie their BOSS!!!😂😂

[@beratnabodhi]

Because the regressive right loved to dox people.

[@GregMartinez-g4r]

The lawsuits can bankrupt these schools

[@RJAZ89]

That’s a lot of Californians

[@lunabasoledad372]

Charges dropped? Meaning rebellion against government acceptable? .Justices must RESIGN also.

[@jammzy2959]

Were you a Jan 6 fan?

[@beratnabodhi]

How are they "rebelling," and what government are they rebelling against? Isreal?

[@peep1906]

What can be done ..... do they have permission to be there? They can have free speech where they are permitted to assemble. Is chanting free speech ...NO.

[@catherinehurt.]

This is ANYTHING BUT PEACEFUL!!!!!!!!

[@IFD24]

How of them are actually students ....vs paid protestors

[@dianeoneal6352]

Why not protest against Hamas

[@dmwalker24]

That would be because Hamas isn't funded by University investment, or taxpayer money. Israel is. Protesting against Hamas to stop having universities or the government provide resources to the conflict would be dumb.

[@dianeoneal6352]

Hamas started this mess, now hiding behind women and children

[@mattyjay8896]

Because they support hamas in what they did.

[@babulmridha]

salute

[@rox282]

Cuz hamas are at home and didn't colonies anybody ?

[@dianaburgos9794]

It's about time they call the national guards. this is dangerous for our children that have nothing to do with all this madness.

[@benjaminacuna7484]

FUCKING RIDICULOUS!!!!!!!

[@NKn0ws]

Charges dropped? This is unbelievable

[@tironemann]

Fim do Hamas Palestina

[@Prof.DrObad]

The American academic community represents the living conscience, the rational American mind, and the correct awareness of truth versus falsehood, justice versus injustice, and peace versus war.

[@operationpaperclip3952]

Not PROSECUTING Breaking the Law of Order on Campus is ENCOURAGEMENT of SUCH Behavior. Therefore, BOYCOTT UT.

[@roberthall7929]

No consequences, no change! This is what you get when education does educate. Teach WWII in our schools. Stop allowing Liberals to teach BS to our children.

[@IUsedToBeNaive357]

Seems like all criminal charges are dropped in Austin, Texas. So what’s new?

[@SemaanDouaihi]

Students needs One Way a ticket to the Moon

[@alexp8372]

This is not a peaceful protest

[@Cuban20]

None of them started violence. The Police and the Zionist "counter protesters" were the ones always instigating violence and getting away with it. So yes it was peaceful.

[@ferdinandsiegel4470]

Wrong.

[@aaronettsexton4459]

They keep letting these people go after arrest don't make sense....😮

[@TRUTH-4U-NOW]

Of these are the future Americans, the USA is done.

[@kbc163]

To hell with dropping charges. The 1st amendment doesn't allow you to say or do whatever you want whenever you want for as long as you want. The right to assemble and peacefully protest is guaranteed, but you have no right to take over public space, ignore police orders to disperse, and threaten Jewish students.

[@elhuddleston17]

If course they was dropped

[@audiovice2718]

I know they literally didn’t break a law 😂

[@Chumpy_1]

@@audiovice2718 Go look up some protest videos and tell me how they are peaceful

[@street_cheeks]

yeah. the constitution protects free speech, KKKommie Karen

[@audiovice2718]

Your concerned bout campus protests and LeBron James when you should be concerned about going to see dentist and raising your inbred family

[@elhuddleston17]

@@audiovice2718 DA said there was no proof.

[@22056]

Why?

[@luis110613]

AND THIS IS THE PROBLEM, ARRESTED BUT CHARGES DROPPED, LAWS HAVE TO CHANGE IN ORDER TO SUIT THE WAYS OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM. CHARGES SHOULD BE SEVERE!! FELONY TRESPASS, EXPELLED AND DEBT BE REINSTATED AND DOUBLED. MAKE IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO GO TO ANY COLLEGE IN THE US AND A CRIMINAL RECORD.

[@beratnabodhi]

And do you apply those same standards to the Jan 6 insurrectionists?

[@ponnaga550]

Peaceful campus protests are beauty of democratic process which is guaranteed under constitution. Butal crackdown on the protests at the behest of Israeli PM is shameful. Where Govts fail to act, these protests take shape to stop wars &innicent killings. These students who are future leaders of the world must be greatly honoured and respected so that they not demoralised &enjoy their freedom movements to strengthen democracies in future which guarantees right to life.

[@ana62301]

Protesting the slaughter of 30,000+ civilians is not "pro-Hamas" Mr. Creighton.

[@chromecast943]

So why they said were all hamas...

[@hummingbirdredhand6729]

Bunch of IGNORANCE on full display, all the Muslims are laughing at the stupid American students who are just fodder for their PROPAGANDA MACHINE 💀

[@Cuban20]

@@chromecast943No one did, that's crazy ziofascists putting words in everyone's mouth

[@alexp8372]

​@Cuban20 that was on the video, you b..ch

[@alexp8372]

​@@Cuban20BTW, you are islafascists

[@ana62301]

Anti-Zionism is not antisemitic, Mr. Abbott.

[@jdluntjr76226]

Stfu - when there are chants of from the river to the sea palestein will be free meaning the Jewish people will be driven out - it sure the hell is anti semetic

[@alexp8372]

No, it is. You can't advocate for Jewish people not to have a state.

[@Harpo77]

Then I guess we can all break the law. No law for anyone in America.

[@waltvancourt5052]

Free Gaza and America from AIPAC and Israel. World wide rallies against Apartheid, ect,ect

[@markmitchell5051]

Were they protesting to stop missles from being fired into coutries?

[@joeyfloores376]

They should re-arrest those individuals and make sure that they fill out their report correctly.

[@TheTebhes]

History is written on ancient ruins. For example, the Temple of Solomon, built in the Jewish country of Judea, is 3,000 years old. Also, there has never been a country named Palestine in history.

[@rosalindamartinez9634]

IT'S UP TO THE STATE GOVERNMENT TO REGULATE. SPEECHES THAT ENDANGER PUBLIC SAFETY! OR TO TO USE FORCE IF IT CONSITITUES SECURITY. INCITEMENT! AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT THE MUSLIMS DOES HAVE ALOT OF WORDS THAT CAN CREATE ARGUMENTS AND FIGHTS. WE HAVE HEARD ALOT OF CHANTS AND SPEACHES, AGAINST THE JEWISH STUDENTS!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@gordoncarr9747]

It would help if the protesters would give voice recognition and position on Oct 7th. 😊

[@Cuban20]

It would help if Zionists would give voice and recognition and position on the Genocide their regime has caused for 75 years after illegally taking land that doesn't belong to them. October 7th happened because they were already committing mass murder and oppression of Palestinians. The Israeli regime wouldn't even try to negotiate or stop it. So I don't want to hear anymore about October 7th.

[@Roxwins]

How Ironic for Jewish students to support unlawful arrests.

[@RandyVisitacion-b6u]

One day many of them will become homeless because of immoral youth behavior!

[@davidanon6004]

Israel has the God-given right to retaliate against its enemies. Jewish students should not be targeted for the action of their Israeli friends across the ocean!!

[@rstallworth5349]

According to the Constitution, they are right

[@kbc163]

Not when they occupy public spaces, ignore police orders to disperse, and threaten Jewish students.

[@db2466]

Shamed!!!

[@holydiver1966]

Why these protesters bring Kashmir, India into their demo

[@maxprize829]

From the fridge to the tv

[@shimacoody4089]

Bullies

[@stevesteindorf2501]

Dropping charges is a great way to get them to stop. How stupid.

[@dennisddiamond854]

They intended to drop the charges. They arrested them to screw up their protest plans and agenda.

[@ana62301]

Students have the right to air their grievances with you, Mr. Hartzell.

[@Brucev7]

But not interfere with Students & Staff

[@Cuban20]

@@Brucev7There are Staff with them. And when a genocide is happening business as usual isn't the way to go. Protests must happen. That's how segregation was legally abolished in the US.

[@Brucev7]

@@Cuban20 October7?

[@kbc163]

​@@Cuban20Hamas could end the conflict right now with a cease fire and releasing hostages. Why haven't they? Because they're insane terrorists hiding behind civilians. And you idiots are supporting them. Shame on you.

[@billhiggins1882]

Deport don't arrest

[@davidcheung6404]

Let the lawsuits roll in.

[@allensheppard3691]

Your freedoms amount to the temperment of the sherrif

[@tomwilliamson3637]

Good for the protestors. From an international perspective it signals that the US isn't totally corrupt, and that there is hope for the future.

[@alejandroalividaurri2310]

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DEI???? DEMOCRATS, WHAT' SAY YOU?????

[@julie1630]

BS!! You cannot commit anarchy

[@49erDiner]

FOMO U - that's clear at this point.....FOMO warriors !

[@julie1630]

Dropped? Mistake

[@rosalindamartinez9634]

PRAYERS TO CALM THE VOICES OF ALL ENEMIES FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC! MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS. HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS. MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS . HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS. MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS. HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS. COME HOLY GHOST. COME HOLY GHOST. COME HOLY GHOST. FILL THE HEARTS OF THE FAITHFUL AND KINDLE IN US, THE FIRE OF THY LOVE. AND THOU SHALL RENEW THE FACE OF THE EARTH. AMEN.ALLELUIA DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN HEAR OUR PRAYERS! THAT THE PRAYERS ARE POSITIVE AND GOOD FOR EVERYBODY WHO WANTS P3ACE IN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS. AMEN. HAVING A HAPPY MIND AND PRAISING FATHER GOD HIS LOVE WILL FLOW TO EVERYBODY! WHO LOVES GOD!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@bryantsnider3908]

Wokeness at its best

[@katana258]

texas lets them go so whats the use ..all talk

[@AyeletSchlaffer]

🇮🇱

[@ArifKhan-lx6jc]

They all want peace in the world and against the havoc of humanity

[@MrBobochow]

I have to agree with these protesters and help Israel free Palestine from Hamas .

[@kaizen_monk]

Deport deport deport !!!!!

[@PaulaWorthington]

God is watching.

[@Brucev7]

Yep. And He Does Not Condone Disruptions, Nor Disobedience, nor Condoning Those Who Attack Innocent People, Burning Babies & Raping. Luke 13:3 John 14:15 2 Timothy 3:1 - 7 1 John 1:9 Luke 6:46

[@Cuban20]

@@Brucev7No one cares. This isn't about your religion it's about stopping a Genocide. And if you are so spineless you can't stand up for the innocent being murdered in the name of a religion, then you are the same Whited Sepulchers (Pharisees) that Jesus Christ denounced. Also remember the Zionists persecute and Murder Christians on both sides of the wall.

[@4672-m9f]

its a hehim

[@irenedelossantos-k9k]

PEACEFUL LOLS 😂😂😂😂

[@rajupodiyan3147]

Gas , Gaza 🧠📚🏫

[@golondriz3]

We are not terrorist sympathizers we are against genocide.. two different things.

[@brushcountryoutdoors6543]

He has his Pronouns listed!!! 🚩🚩

[@محمدمعننعمان]

STOP THE GENOCIDE!

[@chelly2468]

GO TO PALESTINE AND TELL THEM THAT.

[@Brucev7]

October 7

[@Cuban20]

Stop the Genocide Now!

[@shaikkarimulla5176]

Free palasitin ❤ya Allah en ko lambi hayat dea mola ami

[@opaca512]

This looks MUCH MORE PEACEFUL, than say Jan 6! Crazy world we are living in. FREEdumb in TX…

[@nunyah8705]

Doesn’t matter if the charges were dropped or not, they still will struggle finding real careers where they look into your background

[@aliceweil2357]

Your tv ststion sucks😂😂😂

[@nazemakhan2979]

Stop violence upon student

[@lounisrajah5951]

Rare courage of students inspired by that of the people of GAZA, capital of Humanity

[@daviddaniel438]

P,danger, in,thea,world

[@Genocide2024]

The police wear mask but the students cannot wear mask. What?

[@debrajackman724]

I SEE EVIL

[@opaca512]

Insane response! Police state is closer to reality.

[@luciaspaetgens1366]

PEACE..TO AL THE PEOPLE ...FREE PALESTINE...FREE ASSANGE..JAIL THE REAL WAR-CRIMINALS ..ALSO THE COPS WHO WORKING FOR THEM....😢oldgran..

[@MatchaCocoaDog]

All the police departments are laughing now but those arrested will have the last laugh when they dole out individual lawsuits on civil rights violations.

[@gregorypeck6952]

amercan mayority laugh at your stupidity

[@davidcheung6404]

Free speech unless you say something they don't like. C'mon this is America and I pray this next generation continues with the pressure