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Criminal charges will not be filed in the April incident in which two men physically removed pro-Palestine protestors from a classroom at the University of Colorado Boulder.
According to a statement released by the university on Monday, the CU Boulder Police Department reviewed the evidence obtained in the investigation of the incident with the Boulder County District Attorney’s office. The evaluation resulted in a decision of which no criminal charges would be filed, citing “that the standard for filing criminal charges requires that there be a reasonable likelihood of conviction.”
A video posted to the Instagram page of Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine shows a man grabbing a protester by their keffiyeh, lifting them up and tossing them around. He was identified by the university as a mentor to the Designing for Defense class in which the disruption took place.
The university said in the statement that they have excluded the mentor from campus, and that “there was no evidence indicating the instructor of the class broke any laws in the April 2 incident.”
Contact CU Independent News Editor Ainsley Coogan at Ainsley.coogan@colorado.edu
