Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested after occupying University of Washington building
SEATTLE AP Police arrested about pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied a University of Washington engineering building and demanded the school break ties with Boeing Students from the group Super UW moved into the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building in Seattle on Monday evening and unofficially renamed it after Shaban al-Dalou a teenage engineering scholar who was killed along with his mother after an Israeli airstrike caused an inferno outside of a Gaza hospital The students demanded that the university sever all ties with Boeing including returning any Boeing donations and barring the company s employees from teaching at or otherwise influencing the school Boeing has a factory in nearby Renton that makes commercial and military aircraft according to its website We re hoping to remove the influence of Boeing and other manufacturing companies from our educational space period and we re hoping to expose the repressive tactics of the university Super UW spokesperson Eric Horford informed KOMO News Another group dressed in black blocked the front of the building with furniture and used dumpsters to block nearby Jefferson Road UW police worked with Seattle police to clear the building at around p m UW spokesperson Victor Balta noted in a message About people were taken into custody and charged with trespassing property destruction and disorderly conduct he commented Their cases will be referred to the King County prosecutors Any students identified will be referred to the Aspirant Conduct Office Balta commented The arrests come amid a Trump administration crackdown on international students who took part in pro-Palestinian protests at U S colleges and universities More than students at colleges universities and university systems have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated since late March according to an Associated Press review of university statements correspondence with school leaders and court records Source
