SIUE professor ‘physique slammed and crushed’ by cops throughout anti-Israel protest at Wash U, hospitalised with ‘damaged ribs’

A video reveals how police gathered round protesters and tried to restrain them.

Historical past professor Steve Tamari was recording a video of the activists when not less than 4 officers grabbed and wrestled him to the bottom. Three different cops stood as they tried to zip tie his fingers.

‘I’m now within the hospital with a number of damaged ribs’

“Over the past seven months. I have been in agony watching my individuals in Palestine be slaughtered with U.S. bombs and funding. I joined the coed led protests on Saturday to cease the genocide and help and shield the scholars,” Tamari’s assertion mentioned, in line with Riverfronttimes.

Steve mentioned he was “physique slammed and crushed by the load of a number of St. Louis County Law enforcement officials after which dragged throughout campus by the police. Because of police brutality, I’m now within the hospital with a number of damaged ribs and a damaged hand.”

Steve added that a physician mentioned he was fortunate to be alive. “My lungs might have been punctured and I might have died on the bottom as they abused me,” he mentioned.

Steve went on to say that college students had invited Wash U to interact in dialogue about divestment from Israel and Boeing, however their invites had been rejected. “Washington College directors referred to as within the police armed with batons and wielding bicycles like battering rams,” he wrote. “Police forces from across the metro space crushed a gathering of scholars and anxious residents urgent for an finish to American complicity within the genocide of Palestinians within the Gaza.”

‘There was a competition environment on the garden’

Steve’s spouse, Sandra Tamari, shared on X that she too was arrested. “I used to be arrested on the Gaza encampment at Washington College in St. Louis on Sat. My husband, a 65-year outdated full professor at S Illinois Univ Edwardsville, was brutally overwhelmed by police. Right here is the video of his arrest. He is sporting the yellow jacket,” she wrote.

Sandra added within the thread that there was “no violence/property injury instigated by the protestors. When police from 5 municipalities attacked us, there was a competition environment on the garden.”

“When the police moved into the encampment, there have been younger kids current. In among the movies of the arrests, I can hear the voice of the 10-yr outdated daughter of a good friend yelling, “Do not harm him! Depart him alone!”” she added.

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Not less than 100 individuals had been arrested on the campus on Saturday alone. Among the many arrested had been 23 Wash U college students and not less than 4 workers, in line with Chancellor Andrew Martin.