Santa Clara DA Charges 12 Pro-Palestinian Stanford Protesters With Felonies

[SouthBayDem]

Source: KQED

The Santa Clara County district attorney is pursuing criminal charges against a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested in June after barricading themselves inside the Stanford University president’s office.

All 12 defendants, including eight current Stanford students, face felony charges of vandalism and conspiracy to trespass, among the most serious charges against demonstrators involved with pro-Palestinian campus protests in California last spring.

Warrants have been issued, and the protesters will be arraigned later this month, District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced on Thursday.

“Dissent is American, vandalism is criminal,” he said during a press conference Thursday. “Today, I’m announcing charges against 12 people who intentionally crossed the clear and bright line between dissent and destruction.”

Read more: https://www.kqed.org/news/12035346/santa-clara-da-charges-12-pro-palestinian-protesters-took-over-stanford-university-presidents-office

[AZJonnie]

1. As long as they are adequately represented and either cop pleas or have their day in court

Then so be it.

[MichMan]

2. $700,000 in damage from vandalism

They could have easily made their point without destroying stuff. Let them all pay restitution. Every penny of it.

Community service of picking up litter from the roads or something as well