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.”
Eckstein had already sensed campus hostility toward Israel prior to Oct. 7. But after the attacks, she recalled, her friends “started to give me dirty looks” following her decision to post pro-Israel messages on social media.
Classic.
The classic case of “resisting arrest” by involuntarily responding to the violence done to you by cops. If a cop became a doctor they’d call your knee reflex test an assault on their person.
cops are the biggest fucking babies. the people least capable of being lethally armed are given the most ability to do so
acab
i think thats intentional terror
STOP RESISTING
Holy shit, she does other things besides running for president?
Well, yeah. It just doesn’t get reported on.
Okay so enlighten me. What has she accomplished in her political career for the American people? Name a few things.
Yes, as anyone who isn’t a blueMAGA cultist knows
Honestly I can understand people not knowing anything about her, I voted for Bernie each primary, he’s the only candidate I’ve ever donated to, and I only voted for the establishment Dems because trump is such a threat, and I really only know that she runs for president and sat at a table with Putin once.
I’m sure the only reason I know about the sharing a table with Putin thing is because the establishment Dems pushed it out.
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Unlike the liberals who definitely don’t just call anyone they don’t like a tankie
How much of a politically illiterate dipshit with no knowledge of history beyond a week ago do you have to be to think Trump invented catchphrases?
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honestly the dems were perfectly capable of losing the election all on their own, they really didn’t need any assistance in that department
Point is, running third party is sabotaging the platform you claim to support. If you want something more effective, look at what’s happening to Tesla right now.
Direct action is a different strategy from electoral politics. You need both.
The Dems platform is the facilitation of genocide of Palestinians. Good on Jill Stein trying to “sabotage” that
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what kinda of logic is that ? if the option is genocide, genocide with bs lip-service and no genocide then no genocide is always the answer. snakes like schumer and pelosi are still in control of dnc because we didn’t loose hard enough. 3rd party getting more than 10 percent of votes would have been best thing for our political system.
dnc has become full of parasites who won’t waste one second putting on the maga hat if it can make them more money. just look at harris, so much farce before election and now partying in hawai with her aipac lobbyists husband.
Did trump run as the Fascist Dictatorship party candidate?
No, he ran as a Republican and turned the Republican party into the Fascist Dictatorship party.
Similarly you have a better chance of taking over the Democratic party and turning it into the Green party than you do of winning as a Green party candidate.
The game is rigged to prevent third party candidates from winning, If you want to actually improve things you either have to play the game with a party that can win an election, like AOC or Bernie, or you have to play a different game altogether, like Luigi.
So instead you pick “even more genocide”?
No, instead you pick the “no genocide” option. Quite telling that you’d pick “less genocide”
your efforts are better spent outside the election
Only sensible thing u said so far
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The best option you have if you’re playing by the rules is to pick the least bad option of the parties that can actually win, and then change that into the “no genocide” party.
Are you sure you wouldn’t be more comfortable on reddit.world?
What I’m saying is that voting third party does nothing, you either have to turn the democratic party into what you want, or scare the politicians(or rather, their owners) into getting rid of first past the post.
If you ever find yourself on a side that’s pro genocide, you’re the bad guy. There might be worse guys, but probably not. Being the team of ‘well they’re promising to not genocide me so let them have some genocide as a treat’ does worse than nothing, and historically hasn’t worked out so well.
If two parties are the pro genocide parties, then you logically cannot support either. It’s worth voting third party to register your displeasure, while working towards other goals that will hopefully bring real change when the opportunity arises.
In any case nothing is ever solved or improved by genocide. So any option with genocide is the worst option among the infinite things you can attempt to do.
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If you believe this then you have no idea what the conflict is or what has been happening in the region, pretty much ever.
We’re the Germans genocided to end their genocide?
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Alaska got rid of First Past The Post voting and now use Ranked Choice. What excuse does your state representatives have to not pass this critical reform?
So those unrepresented by their options in the voting booth can make and/or vote for outside the two party system without a spoiler effect.
So we can have democracy.
Damn luckily the Democrats will not help Trump pass the budget. That would mean they work with Trump instead of the Greens.
the Greens
What greens? They’re not a real party.
So please, specifically which “greens” should the Democrats be working with?
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