(5 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stanford, California – 5 June 2024
1. Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus
2. Guards stand in front of president’s office where protesters barricaded themselves
3. Various of workers assessing damage to door broken down by police
4. Workers looking at window to president’s office building
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Sussman, Stanford University assistant professor:
"A group of protesters, probably coming from the encampment sort of up the way here, came down and stormed or broke into the president’s office, which is, I believe, this building here or the one right next to it, and attempted to barricade themselves in the building before the local police came and essentially forced them out and arrested several of them."
6. Guards stand in front of president’s office where protesters barricaded themselves
7. Close-up of door with broken window
8. Police vehicles outside president’s office
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Sussman, Stanford University assistant professor:
"I feel like the trespassing itself is a little bit less shocking to me than some of the graffiti, which expresses, I think, very violent rhetoric that goes beyond mere criticism of say the police or Israel or America to really advocating violence."
10. Various of slogans spray-painted around president’s office
11.SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Sussman, Stanford University assistant professor:
"So as long as the punishment was telegraphed in advance, it’s really I think hard to say that it wasn’t fair and that the protesters weren’t forewarned."
12. Various of slogans spray-painted around president’s office
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah LeBaron, Stanford University undergraduate:
"For instance, a lot of the, the spray paint here, like it says, like kill cops, you know, I don’t know how much that is necessarily aligned with the goal of resolving the war between Israel and Palestine."
14. Graffiti on campus buildings ++NOTE LANGUAGE IN GRAFFITI++
15. Stanford Memorial Church
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Lebaron, Stanford University undergraduate:
"I think the goal is to have Stanford divest from Israel. That is their stated goal. But I don’t see how these actions necessarily lead to that goal. You know what I mean? Like just from a logistics perspective, it seems a little bit disjointed. This seems like an action that’s done out of frustration rather than an action that’s done out of purpose."
17. Students riding bikes on campus
STORYLINE:
Stanford University said 13 people were arrested as law enforcement removed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a campus building early Wednesday, with the school saying there was damage inside and outside a building that houses the university president and provost offices.
The takeover began near dawn on the last day of classes for the spring quarter. Some protesters barricaded themselves inside while others linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported. The group chanted “Palestine will be free, we will free Palestine.”
The student newspaper said one of its reporters was among those detained.
Within about three hours, officers had broken into the building and began taking people into custody. Other protesters cheered as the detainees were escorted out of the building and loaded into law enforcement vehicles.
The building was cleared and the protest didn’t affect any other campus activities, university spokesperson Dee Mostofi said in an email to The Associated Press.
An officer was lightly injured when he was shoved by protesters who were interfering with a transport vehicle, Mostofi said.
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