UC-Santa Barbara’s Eileen Boris, writing in ACADEME BLOG. “Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, associate professor of global studies at the University of California, Irvine, is facing three misdemeanor charges for her effort to protect students when an excessive force of armed riot police (from twenty-one different units) assaulted the UCI Palestine solidarity encampment on May 15, 2024. She was tackled and thrown to the ground by fully equipped troopers, an incident captured on a video that went viral on social media. She not only sustained injuries but also experienced ongoing trauma from doxing and calls for her dismissal.” Read more here.