UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student

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UC Berkeley opens civil rights investigation into backyard confrontation between a law professor and a student
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Alicia Victoria Lozano is a California-based reporter for NBC News focusing on climate change, wildfires and the changing politics of drug laws.

The University of California, Berkeley, has opened a Title IX civil rights investigation into whether a law professor harassed a Muslim student during a dinner last month in the professor’s backyard. The investigation by the university’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination stems from an April 9 incident at the home of professor Catherine Fisk and her husband, who is dean of the university’s law school.

Video shot by attendees and shared with NBC News showed Fisk wrapping her arm around Afaneh in an attempt to wrestle a microphone out of the student’s hands. The two appeared to briefly jostle for the microphone before Fisk released her grip. At the end of a different video, Fisk said, “We agree with you about what’s going on in Palestine.

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