By Ilass Chirac Poumie
Selina Al-Shihabi said, is accused of having poured water on the policeman, according to the officer. But no witness was there to certify the act. Earlier in the evening, the police had forced the human security wall formed by the leaders of the demonstration, and had violently pushed a peaceful demonstrator to the ground.
For a few hundred demonstrators, almost all police in the city of Washington were mobilized. The crowd chanted “Let him go! Let him go!” as the protester was taken into custody.
Thursday’s protest on F Street NW near 20th Street NW focused on university President Ellen Granberg. Protesters say she refused to come to the table with them during the nearly two-week-long encampment at University Yard.
Yesterday’s demonstration, which began in front of the main campus of George Washington around 6 p.m., is one of the longest. This tired the police and the police came in nervous. Hence its dispersion around midnight, infront of the residency of their university President.
The students of Geoges Washington want their president to stop all cooperation with the Israeli authorities. The atmosphere was very overheated.
It is important to congratulate the presence of the police supervisors, who have several times subdued their elements, always ready to brutalize the demonstrators. The demonstrators were mostly made up of students and teachers of all origins and religious.
