Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says she was charged with assaulting a police officer after she attended a pro-Palestinian protest on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday.
“It was kind of scary to tell you the truth,” Stein, 73, said in an interview with local news station KSDK following her release from several hours of detention after she and 99 others were arrested. “I was charged with assaulting a police officer. Can you believe it?” (Stein’s campaign spokesperson told CNN that they were “not aware of any charges at this time.”)
Stein said she was invited by students at the university—one of dozens across the U.S. that have been disrupted in recent weeks by protests against Israel’s deadly military campaign in Gaza, accusations of antisemitism, and clashes with police—to join the demonstration.
In a video taken before her arrest that Stein posted on X, she noted…
