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...Given the importance of dissent in an academic community, the arrest of a student protestor remains a significant event," said a statement released tonight by a University spokesman. "The University is persuaded that more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest. Without condoning the students’ behavior at the Forum, broader principles have led the University to request that the criminal charges against the students be dropped...
...University is persuaded that more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest,” said a statement released by Harvard last night. “Without condoning the students’ behavior at the Forum, broader principles have led the University to request that the criminal charges against the students be dropped...
...review of video footage from the event found several inconsistencies in the police report filed after their arrest, including an incorrect order of events and misquotations of the comments the students yelled. According to the students, they were also not given a warning before they were removed from the forum, which would represent a breach of free speech guidelines approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Given the importance of dissent in an academic community, the arrest of a student protestor remains a significant event. For that reason, the Harvard University Police Department has carefully reviewed the situation at the Forum. The University is persuaded that more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest. Without condoning the students’ behavior at the Forum, broader principles have led the University to request that the criminal charges against the students be dropped...
...police report filed for the arrest of four undergraduates last Thursday for their protest during a speech at the Institute of Politics (IOP) has been found to contain several errors, including misquoting the students and inaccurately representing the order of events, according to video footage of the incident...