Almost 60 protesters arrested at a pro-Palestine rally at the University of Texas at Austin are slowly being released from jail.
Almost 60 protesters were arrested at a pro-Palestine rally at the University of Texas at Austin . Some of the protestors were slowly being released from jail on Thursday morning. Dozens of family and friends had been outside the jail all night waiting for their release. They could be heard chanting, "APD, let them out."Texas DPS said, as of 9 p.m. on Wednesday, 34 arrests were made by law enforcement on the UT Austin campus related to protests.
""There was kind of a split between these, these two groups, the police officers and the peaceful protesters, there was kind of a blank space in the grass where no one was. And I kind of walked through that. And as I was walking through that, to get to the other side, a police officer just grabbed me," said Lazarus Omkoscielniak, one of those arrested."I was there for over 13 hours. It was very long, very tiring. Draining experience.
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