Outrage is erupting over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s decision to drop charges against dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters who barricaded themselves inside a building at Columbia University in April.
Bragg, best known for his recent successful criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump, initially charged 46 of the protesters with misdemeanor trespass in the third degree following their arrest during an April 30 police raid on Columbia’s then-occupied Hamilton Hall.
Stephen Millan, a prosecutor working in Bragg’s office, told a New York court on Thursday that charges against 32 of the protesters—including 30 students and two Columbia staffers—would be dropped due to lack of evidence in identifying the suspects, according to Reuters.
Charges against another 13 defendants remained active after they refused to accept a deal that would have seen the charges dropped if they were not arrested for any other reason…
