got arrested at wash u last month with some friends who attend the university.
these universities are the same ones that promote “progressive values”
Criminalizing protest and dissent is a major problem. We need the right to protest in order to have a pluralistic democracy.
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/access/2024/05/23/protest-and-serve
Discussion
Hopefully it was just a catch and release thing. Although almost nobody arrested at protests ever gets convicted, the time, money, and stress of trials is a huge burden.
Speaking of which, it says something that the primary reason to arrest people at protests is to stop the protest and the proximate officsl reason for the arrest is just an excuse.
The county lawyers are still deciding whether or not to charge us. Not worried about it, a lot worse could’ve happened.
They now have very tall fences around the whole campus. Boeing owns that school.