MINNEAPOLIS — One person arrested in Monday’s pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Minnesota (U of M) is now charged with assault for reportedly spitting on a responding police officer.
Court documents filed Thursday document the allegations against a 23-year-old from Minneapolis, which amount to fourth-degree assault.
Prosecutors say the defendant was among a group of demonstrators who barricaded themselves inside Morrill Hall on the U of M Campus Monday afternoon and refused to leave, barricading doors with furniture, bicycle U locks and other improvised barriers…