Posted on 05/10/2024 11:46:46 PM PDT by Libloather
Police disbanded the two-week-old pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania this morning, resulting in 33 arrests of those who defied orders to leave, 6ABC reported.
A Penn spokesperson said the university’s police department and the Philadelphia Police Department began an operation around 5:30 a.m. to dismantle the encampment. Protesters received a two-minute warning 20 minutes later to leave.
Some of the protesters defied order and locked arms by the Benjamin Franklin statue on College Green. Thirty-three people were arrested without incident and cited for defiant trespass, according to the university.
“Those who chose to stay did so knowing that they would be arrested and removed,” the university said in a statement.
By mid-morning, the encampment site was cleared out, although fences prevented people from accessing the area.
And some protest sympathizers gathered at 34th and Walnut streets later in the morning.
The protesters at the encampment were asking the university to disclose its investments and cut ties with businesses that support Israel.
The previous day, Gov Josh Shapiro said it was “past time for the university to act, to address this, to disband this encampment and restore order and safety on campus.”
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"Penn police have now confirmed 9 Penn students were among the 33 individuals arrested — the other 24 individuals have no Penn affiliation," the university said in a statement.
"The arrested individuals were given code violation notices for defiant trespass and were released quickly throughout the morning. Upon searching the encampment, Penn police recovered several homemade weapons devised chains, bolts, and other metal parts."
They need to taser these trouble makers and one year in prison. That should cool them off.
I bet they’re part of the traveling Antifa rabble that has been around and getting funding to travel around and disrupt the USA since 2020.
Further, I’d be really curious to know how many of the 24 were from out of state.
When police here arrested a bunch of AntiFa pukes attacking the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, only about 10% of them were from GA, the rest from all over the country. I dug thru the DeKalb County jail records myself to see. These people were not funding that travel themselves, and I challenged our AG, who I know, to go after the people who were funding them. That’s where the real problem lies.
“They need to taser these trouble makers and one year in prison. That should cool them off.”
Hard labor, chain gang.
The tents. Were they all brand new and did they match? That would point to one finances funding this $hit.
We need answers.
These universities encourage this behavior by not putting a stop to it immediately.
Antifa trash backed up by Soros money.
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