Antisemitism is still tolerated on college campuses across the country, if not by university officials, then by liberal law enforcement officials who view the justice system as a political tool.
The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced that it would be dropping the charges against “pro-Palestinian” antisemitic protesters who were arrested earlier his year on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. The announcement was made just days before trials were set to begin for some defendants.
Here is how the New York Times described the scene on April 30, when the arrests were made: “Several hundred students had broken through the barriers keeping them out of the encampment” that was set up in the university’s library after being “given until 6 a.m. on Tuesday to clear out from the encampment or face possible arrest.” Six people, including three students, were arrested and booked for trespassing, while 30 others were cited for trespassing and released.
Evidently, Orange County prosecutors just couldn’t figure out how to prosecute the protesters who were arrested.
“We realized that five of those six, we simply didn’t have sufficient evidence to take them to trial,” said District Attorney Jeff Nieman. “We either couldn’t ascertain who the charging officer was in those individual cases or if we could determine who it was, we couldn’t locate them.”
A little bit of competence from the people in charge of protecting North Carolina residents is just a little too much to ask for, apparently.
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This is reminiscent of earlier this year when Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped charges against 30 protesters who were arrested after trespassing at Columbia University, saying prosecutors couldn’t identify them because they wore masks that hid their identities. This was despite the fact that the protesters were arrested in the building they were accused of illegally trespassing, meaning Bragg found it too difficult to identify the people who were arrested in the act of committing the crimes they were charged with.
Between the downplaying (and sometimes endorsement) of antisemitism by university officials to the nonchalant attitude that liberal prosecutors treat these criminal cases with, antisemites have continued to be empowered on university campuses. These “pro-Palestine” antisemites have the backing of their local justice system and their university “leadership” and will continue to treat laws and university policies as the jokes that they are under the liberals in charge of enforcing them.