In April 2024, NYPD officer before the pro-Palestinian protesters outside the Colombian University in New York.
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February 3 Three Postgraduate Columbia are suing the court to court University for its repressions on Pro-Palestine protest. A civil lawsuit in New York-Entered Catherine Kurran-Grum, Aidan Paris and Brandon Murphy-identified more than 30 violations of the long-standing gas war.
While Colombia may have fallen from the main media in the moon, as the police were inferior Hamilton Hall Students -Protestists and Covered the camp with solidarity of the gasThe story has never ended with those on the campus. Three plaintiffs had to finish it in May, but after the steady months of “uncertain intermediate suspension”, disciplinary hearings and persecution, the university thwarted its education, suspending each for two years. “These students should be honored for bravery, leadership and moral clarity,” says James Carlson, lawyer. “Instead, they had life and the career was unfairly sabotaged.”
“Constantly delaying the students related to the Hall Hinda and the camps … For more than nine months, the university has been (USA) in disciplinary cleaning,” Kurran-thrum said Nation.
All the plaintiffs faced the disciplinary process of Colombia after participating in the demonstration, and on campus, vigils and educational measures, as stated in the trial, “protest Israeli military activity and support for ceasefire in the newspaper”. The plaintiffs claim that over the past year and a half the university has abolished its responsibility for listening to the rules and policies of Colombia in order to target and punish interaction in anti -war efforts.
For the first time, Carlson says law enforcement – which were armed weapon. sledge. batons and Flashbang explosives– To terrorize students last April, violated Section 444.F. The University’s Statutes, which obliges the university’s president to consult with the Most Board, created by the Colombian Senate Executive Committee to the campus inviting. April 19, day The first mass arrestThe Executive Committee “did not approve the NYPD presence.” According to the lawsuit, the safik reversed the Senate again to facilitate the second wave of arrests on April 30.
In addition to NYPD permission on campus First time in 50 yearsThe lawsuit claims that Colombia violated the laws of the tenants provided in the law of New York.
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“The eviction was one of the most horrific aspects that our fundamental rights are being used to force us in the disciplinary process,” said Kurran-Gram. While both plaintiffs deprived the eviction-with one who left two months later, and the other leaves university housing at the end of the academic term-gross class students who did not have alternative housing in the city. “
Another violation that determines the lawsuit is the choice of the university to expose students to “intermediate suspension” without proper rights to the process. Instead of disciplining students through a university court council, which, according to Carlson, is intended for transparent and fair hearings, Colombia improperly decided to use the success and intervention of students, which, he said plagiarism and theft. “
Carlson explains that “according to CSSI’s own recommendations, hearings should be offered immediately after issuing intermediate suspension, but in practice the university used this mechanism to suspend students infinitely.”
Instead of just ban the campus, Kurranuga lost housing, medical care, nutrition plan, full scholarship and employment. Parisy is similar to financial assistance and health after eviction on which they depended on critical medical treatment.
“Colombia does not care or” we “violated the rules.” The lawsuit shows that the one who actually violated the rules … was the university itself, “Kurran-Gram said.” The university took care is the protection of its essence and prevented the student movements to activate the consciousness of the broad student body through the historical and The moral cause we have advocated: the end of the genocide and financing of our university. “
Curran-Groume et al. v. Columbia University This is not the first lawsuit against the school, because tensions on the campus on the occasion of the Israel war broke out. On April 25, 2024, Palestine legal has submitted civil rights complaint With the US Department of Education on civil rights. The complaint states that Palestinian students and their allies faced discriminatory treatment at the university, including death threats, dox, Islamophobia and more.
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Kuran-thrum was also one of the victims of the obvious campus chemical attackPerformed by two Israeli students who sprayed the chemical agent on the gas solidarity rally in January 2024. The plaintiff was hospitalized and suffered, in accordance with the mental and physical trauma of the attack, in accordance with the advisory lawsuit. One of the two students who had allegedly attacked are suing the court to court Colombia in April, causing the cessation of its suspension and a 395 000 Dollars Payment by settlement. “I feel a betrayed institution that was supposed to support me,” said Kurran-Gram.
Colombia will take place this week and has 20 days to answer the claim. Carlson hopes this business can help lead in an era if universities should “think twice before pursuing students for their perspectives.” Paris adds that, despite Colombia’s penchant for “profit from colonial violence” and imposing censorship disciplinary charges, students “refuse to intimidate.”
“Colombia should remember that the most natural reaction to repression is resistance,” said Kuran-Grum. She adds that among Trump Executive order and gas stop the fire that, according to her, are liberals used to Make pretending genocide endedThe plaintiffs will not allow Colombia ‘to ignore the damage to us, and most importantly University’s investment. This lawsuit is a serious appeal in our attempts to prosecute our university and we will not stop. We will not rest. “
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