CLAYTON — Two activists who participated in a pro-Palestine protest last spring at Washington University now face charges, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office said Wednesday.
Those charged include Jill Stein, the presidential nominee of the Green Party in 2024, who is accused of hitting a police officer with a bicycle and kicking him at the protest. Stein, 74, was charged Friday with first-degree trespass and fourth-degree assault.
In charging documents, Washington University police said demonstrators were given numerous warnings to leave the university’s private campus. Officers moved in for arrests around 8 p.m. Court documents alleged Stein interlocked her arms with other demonstrators and refused to leave.
In an interview with the Post-Dispatch just days after the protest, Stein disputed accounts that she struck an officer.
“While I was being assaulted with a bicycle, one of the police bent down and picked up my foot in order to try to further destabilize me into falling backwards,” Stein said. “And I wiggled out of his grip, you know, in an effort not to fall back on my head.”
😂 tokens get spent, always. I love it.
Edit: not sure why I got downvoted, y’all don’t actually support her do you? You know she’s Trump’s paid opposition right?
Did Kamala Harris get arrested protesting too? Where is she?
She’s… somewhere? But the person I was told was “a useful asset, she doesn’t stand for anything” is doing direct action.
Weird how the one with more money is hiding from the public after losing to such a shit canidate. 🤷♂️
She was at home having a glock cleaning party with her crew of republicans and zionists.
Sure seems like cops putting their hands on peoples legs to topple them is the crime of battery.
