Pro-Palestinian Protesters Stuck in Disciplinary and Legal Limbo

Two weeks before she was to graduate from the University of Virginia, Cady de la Cruz said she found herself being dragged across the ground by the police, marched off the campus with her arms zip-tied behind her back, and banned from re-entering. Ten members of the first-generation student’s extended family were making plans to join her to celebrate her years of hard work. Her graduation, though, was now on the line because of her refusal to leave a pro-Palestinian rally that the university said had become dangerous and unruly when people unaffiliated with the university showed up and some protesters started acting aggressively.