Palestinian Supporters Pay Fines in Sit-In Case
Protesters arrested in April after a noisy pro-Palestinian sit-in at UC Berkeley have paid fines and had the charges against them dismissed.
The truce was reached Friday between lawyers for the nearly 80 protesters and the Alameda County district attorney’s office. The fines ranged from $25 to $50, with the exception of one man, who faced charges of assaulting an officer and had to pay $750, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Stuart Hing.
After a rally at Berkeley, protesters marched around campus and took over Wheeler Hall during midterms, disrupting classes in progress.
Police arrested 79 people, 41 of them Berkeley students.
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