(5 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stanford, California – 5 June 2024
1. Hoover Tower on Stanford University campus
2. Ethan Sussman walks in front of building housing president’s office
3. Guards stand in front of president’s office where protesters barricaded themselves
4. Workers assessing damage to door broken down by police
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Sussman, Stanford University assistant professor:
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"A group of protesters 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. Workers looking at window to president’s office building
7. Various of slogans spray-painted around president’s office
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Sussman, Stanford University assistant professor:
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"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."
9. Workers assessing damage to door at president’s office
10. Various of slogans spray-painted around president’s office
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah LeBaron, Stanford University undergraduate:
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"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."
12. Police vehicles parked in front of president’s office
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarah Lebaron, Stanford University undergraduate:
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"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."
14. Stanford Memorial Church
15. Students riding bikes on campus
STORYLINE:
Police arrested 13 people at Stanford University after pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the school president and provost’s offices early Wednesday, causing what officials described as “extensive” vandalism inside and outside the building.
The takeover began around dawn on the last day of spring classes at the university in California’s Silicon Valley, and ended three hours later. Some protesters barricaded themselves inside the building while others linked arms outside, The Stanford Daily reported. The group chanted “Palestine will be free, we will free Palestine.”
Demonstrators cheered in support of those being arrested as the detainees were escorted out of the building and loaded into law enforcement vehicles.
The student newspaper said one of its reporters was among those detained.
Protest camps have sprung up on university campuses across the U.S. and in Europe as students demand their universities stop doing business with Israel or companies that support its war efforts.
Organizers seek to amplify calls to end Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, which they describe as a genocide against the Palestinians. The top United Nations court has concluded there is a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza — a charge Israel strongly denies.
Stanford students who participated in Wednesday’s protest would be immediately suspended, and any seniors would not be allowed to graduate, university President Richard Saller and Provost Jenny Martinez said in a joint statement.
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