The Guardian highlights AIM billboard at UC Irvine
December 19, 2024
California professor says charges over pro-Palestinian protest show ‘failure in leadership’
As riot police arrested 50 people during a May 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of California, Irvine, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was escorted away by riot police, her hands zip-tied behind her back.
A video of the tenured professor speaking passionately to reporters as she was arrested circulated widely on social media. “We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy,” she says in the video. “These police officers out here today – that’s thousands of students’ scholarships.”
On Thursday, Willoughby-Herard and 10 others will appear in court facing three misdemeanor charges including “resisting arrest”, “resisting a peace officer with the threat of violence” and “failure to disperse”.
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After the charges were announced by the Orange County district attorney’s office in September 2024, a truck billboard drove around the UC Irvine campus with the names, faces and charges of 10 individuals charged, including Willoughby-Herard, launched by the far-right activist group Accuracy in Media.