In 2015, Columbia students protested the university’s investments in private prison companies.

The president and trustees responded by…

…meeting with them and voting to divest.

Read this old story for a sense of what is possible in these moments.

themarshallproject.org/2015/03/20/sch…

Pro-Palestinian protesters at UT Austin call for university to divest from Israel. Here's what that means.

Story by Julian Aguilar. kut.org/education/2024…

The Boy Scouts quietly oversee a program that lets kids do ride alongs with police officers — and no parents present.

Guess what happened.

Manhattan accounts for nearly a third of the 1,700 protest arrests nationwide—but Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg won't say whether he intends to prosecute.

Elsewhere in the country, prosecutors have already dropped the charges or pledged not to prosecute: theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

The campus protests show us why local elections matter.

Your sheriffs are deciding how to treat protesters.

Your district attorneys are deciding whether to charge them.

Your judges are deciding whether to let them out on bail.

themarshallproject.org/2024/04/30/cam…

I have gotten a few questions about how to donate to student journalism outlets without supporting Columbia itself. Columbia Daily Spectator is an independent nonprofit with zero financial ties to the university, if you want to kick them some money. specpublishing.com/donate-1

Living in Texas, UT protesters may be more likely to face police brutality.

But they're *less* likely to face criminal charges — because they have a progressive DA.

Your votes for prosecutors, judges, and sheriffs matter so much in moments like these:

themarshallproject.org/2024/04/30/cam…

Huge update to our campus arrests + prosecutions tracker—now at 1,300+ arrests.

Charges include trespassing, assault on police, mob action, 'hate crime on law enforcement,' + more.

We got responses from 22 prosecutors on how they'll handle the charges. theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

What’s happening at Columbia will go down as a pivotal moment in U.S. student protest history.

Yet Columbia, home to the Pulitzers and the Knight First Amendment, isn’t letting journalists, faculty, researchers in.

We’ve been hard at work updating this: By our count, nearly 1,400 people have been arrested at campus protests this month. Some face insane charges, including “hate crimes against law enforcement” in New Orleans

We should all be applauding reporters at The Appeal, who are 1. calling prosecutors to see if they'll pursue charges against protesters + 2. tracking who is up for election this year. Props to Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸, Ethan Corey, Jerry Iannelli, Meg O'Connor!

theappeal.org/prosecutors-ch…

After 79 more arrests at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at UT, Travis County attorney says continuing to charge protesters is “unsustainable.”

Story by Andrew England Weber.
kut.org/crime-justice/…

Thread on the charges protesters are facing in each jurisdiction + prosecutor responses and election info. Starting with the most extreme: New Orleans.

NOPD arrested 12 people for trespassing, hate crime on law enforcement, aggravated battery on a police officer, and more.

This was my 199th story for The Marshall Project. How should I ring in 200?

themarshallproject.org/2024/04/30/cam…

Approaching 1400 arrests now. Updated with arrest, charge, and prosecutor info at:
-Uni of New Mexico in Albuquerque
-Uni of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
-Uni of Connecticut in Storrs
-Virginia Commonwealth Uni in Richmond
& Uni of Utah in Salt Lake City

There’s a growing NYPD presence outside Columbia’s campus right now… including high ranking officers, supervisors, captains, and community affairs. They’ve launched a drone over Hamilton Hall.

The campus protests show us why local elections matter.

Your sheriffs are deciding how to treat protesters.

Your district attorneys are deciding whether to charge them.

Your judges are deciding whether to let them out on bail.

themarshallproject.org/2024/04/30/cam…

Interviews and public records bolster evidence that Absolute Standards, located in a state that abolished the death penalty in 2012, helped the Trump administration resume federal executions after a 17-year hiatus.

theintercept.com/2024/04/25/abs…