Twelve people were arraigned in a packed courtroom at the John Marshall Courts Building on Friday morning on charges related to Monday’s violent clash between pro-Palestine protesters and police outside the James Branch Cabell Library on VCU’s Monroe Park campus.
Benjamin Harris, Ellen Opsal, Julianne O’Brien, Anna Merlene, Sarah Butler, Donovan Berry, Jude Namez, Melisse Ilhan, Taylor Clement, Daijah Eames, Kent Green and Rafal Al Molhem have all been charged with participating in an unlawful assembly and trespassing on VCU property after a group of protesters established an encampment on the lawn outside the library and refused to disperse when ordered by officers dressed in riot gear and carrying guns and pepper spray.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
