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More than a dozen students at Pomona College face immediate suspension following a protest against the removal of a “mock apartheid wall”. The Pomona Divest Apartheid group noted that the wall, a protest art installation, was intended to highlight the college’s complicity in illegal occupation and genocide. According to an Instagram post, 20 students were arrested, 19 of whom were charged with trespassing and one with obstruction of justice.
Student Suspensions Following Pomona College Protest
Immediate suspension is looming for over a dozen students following a protest at Pomona College on Friday.
The activist group Pomona Divest Apartheid, led by students, said the protest was against the removal of a student-created “mock apartheid wall” at Marston Quad on Pomona College’s campus.
According to Pomona Divest Apartheid’s media statement, the college administration forcibly removed the mock apartheid wall just eight days after its erection. The protest art intended to highlight Pomona College’s supposed complicity in an ‘illegal occupation and genocide’.
A video from the scene at Alexander Hall shows police officers detaining demonstrators and guiding them down a staircase.
The president of the school alleges that the students involved refused to identify themselves and verbally harassed the staff, including the use of anti-Black racial slurs when speaking to an administrator.
Other Claremont Colleges students will also face banning from Pomona’s campus and could face disciplinary actions on their own campuses.
An Instagram post from Pomona Divest Apartheid suggests that 20 students were arrested. Nineteen faced trespassing charges, and one was charged with obstruction of justice. As of 12:20 a.m. on Saturday, all 20 students have been released from police custody, according to the group.
Pomona College has yet to comment on the matter despite outreach.
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