On the last day of April, protesters including SDS members showed up outside the courthouse in Orlando, FL to demand that charges against UCF student and pro-Palestine protester Chris Gibson be dropped. Protesters emphasized that protesting is not a crime whatever Trump and Netanyahu may think.
Back in October, UCF student Chris Gibson was ambushed by police and arrested at a pro-Palestine protest at Orlando City Hall. Both the cops and university authorities have played dirty with the case from day one. The University should have accepted they lack any jurisdiction over off campus/non school related events. Cops played dirty not only with this ambush arrest but also by sitting on a highly dubious charge and filing it at the last possible moment.
Chris’s ambush arrest was the 3ed major attack by Orlando Police Department on Palestine protesters in less than a year.