Video of arrest of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, tenured professor at University of California, Irvine, went viralAs riot police arrested 50 people during a May 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of California, Irvine, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was escorted away by riot police, her hands zip-tied behind her back.A video of the tenured professor speaking passionately to reporters as she was arrested circulated widely on social media. “We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy,” she says in the video. “These police officers out here today – that’s thousands of students’ scholarships.” Continue reading…
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Author : Michael Sainato
Publish date : 2024-11-20 13:00:02
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California professor speaks out against charges over pro-Palestinian protest: ‘failure in leadership’
