cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29094869
Brett Wilkins Apr 23, 2025
“Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the Michigan homes of pro-Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general’s office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.”
Video uploaded to social media by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, showed officers battering down the door to a Ypsilanti house before others rushed into the home barking commands with guns drawn and pointed at the residents.
“No search warrant was provided,” someone says in the video as the invaders crashed through the homes’ locked front door. People in the house said their phones and other electronic devices and possessions, including vehicles, were taken.
Um, a vandalism probe? Really? Smashing into homes with guns drawn, seizing electronic devices and other private property, all over a vandalism probe? That comes nowhere near passing the smell test.
