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Police arrested four pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Michigan Wednesday after demonstrators sought to disrupt a student activity fair, The Detroit Free Press reported.
None of the arrested were students, Colleen Mastony, assistant vice president for public affairs, told the Free Press; three were unaffiliated with the university and one was a temporary employee.
About 50 protesters showed up during the campus's annual Festifall event and refused requests to leave.
“For more than an hour, they were given multiple warnings that made clear they were blocking pedestrian traffic and violating university policy,” Mastony said in a statement. “Most eventually dispersed although some refused to leave and, as a result, four people were arrested.”
The campus was the scene of an encampment and several arrests in the spring. At the start of this semester, the student government, which is controlled by pro-Palestinian activists, said it was withholding funding or all student activities until the university commits to divesting from Israel and companies that profit from the war in Gaza.
