“I, like everyone else here, believe that … everything possible to liberate Palestine and end the genocide in Gaza must be done,” a senior studying history at the University of Michigan (U-M) told me on April 25, three days after U-M students erected an encampment outside the Hatcher Graduate Library. The U-M student encampment remained in place from Monday, April 22 until Tuesday, May 21, when officers from U-M’s Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS) cleared more than 100 tents from the Diag while pepper-spraying students. (DPSS has declined to comment on this article, citing an “open and currently active investigation.”)
Close to 6 a.m. on Tuesday, officers from the University of Michigan’s Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS) cleared a student encampment erected on the university diag last month in solidarity with Palestinians enduring Israeli military action. In a statement released by university President Santa J. Ono, the safety of “students, faculty, employees, university visitors, and protesters” is described as “a paramount concern.” Regent Sarah Hubbard echoes President Ono’s safety concerns.
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“I, like everyone else here, believe that … everything possible to liberate Palestine and end the genocide in Gaza must be done,” a senior studying history at the University of Michigan (U-M) told me on April 25, three days after U-M students erected an encampment outside the Hatcher Graduate Library. The U-M student encampment remained in place from Monday, April 22 until Tuesday, May 21, when officers from U-M’s Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS) cleared more than 100 tents from the Diag while pepper-spraying students. (DPSS has declined to comment on this article, citing an “open and currently active investigation.”)
Close to 6 a.m. on Tuesday, officers from the University of Michigan’s Division of Public Safety and Security (DPSS) cleared a student encampment erected on the university diag last month in solidarity with Palestinians enduring Israeli military action. In a statement released by university President Santa J. Ono, the safety of “students, faculty, employees, university visitors, and protesters” is described as “a paramount concern.” Regent Sarah Hubbard echoes President Ono’s safety concerns.
