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.”
Why is the default in this comments section to downvote a curiosity into why people like this woman? I genuinely want to understand your point of view.
And all I get is mockery, a mod deleting my comment, and snark.
Ive genuinely been curious why she always runs for presidency and what other accomplishments shes done that she thinks she's built up her resume.
I am really tired of the snark. What a shame.
She's the only candidate, aside from cornel west, that didn't ran a genocide platform. Also advocates for decent policies like free education, healthcare and a green/sustainable economy.
If you're going by accomplishments: Id rather have someone with what in your eyes are no accomplishments then the known accomplishment of facilitating genocide and increasing geopolitical tensions that blue and red maga brought onto the table
That's not true, Claudia de la Cruz did too
True.