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University of Florida hands down years-long suspensions to pro-Hamas rioters

The seven students have reportedly submitted appeals to overturn their punishments that are pending.

The University of Florida (UF) has handed down severe and potentially life-altering punishments to seven pro-Hamas rioters who participated in occupying the campus in an attempt to intimidate officials into boycotting and divesting from Israel, according to Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the university’s College of Journalism and Communications.

UF’s disciplinary body was set on slapping the students’ wrists, sentencing most to probation only based on recommendations from “hearing bodies,” until its new dean, Chris Summerlin, intervened and issued full suspensions for as many as four years.

The harshest suspensions — including four years for Allan Hektor Frasheri, 21, and three years for other students — while not being formal expulsions, are long enough to make it unlikely that the students serving them will return to the University of Florida.

The seven students have reportedly submitted appeals to overturn their punishments that are pending.

Summerlin’s suspensions may not be the only consequences that the students will face.

According to Fresh Take Florida, the students were part of a group of nine that were arrested by local law enforcement for trespassing and resisting arrest, charges that are being prosecuted by the Alachua County State Attorney’s Office.

They are taking their chances at trial, the news service added, noting that all nine have rejected “deferred prosecution,” an agreement that would require them to plead guilty, or no contest, in exchange for the state’s expunging the convictions from their records in the future so long as they abstain from committing more criminal acts.

The University of Texas at Austin has also meted out lengthy suspensions to pro-Hamas protesters who violated school rules, a course of action that experts believe is a deterrent against similar behavior in the future.

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Eric Kunichika 22:43 11.07.2024
Great news
Henry Eicher 21:57 11.07.2024
Prosecute to the fullest extent yes
Aaron A 21:03 11.07.2024
Learning the hard way that there may be consequences to their actions.
[Anonymous] 20:59 11.07.2024
Great news! Thank you TX & FL.
Salomon Smadja 19:33 11.07.2024
Not so great news at Harvard. Leniency is all about
Bill Pinsky 19:10 11.07.2024
Great news
[Anonymous] 18:54 11.07.2024
About time these thugs must be punished
Sandy Grant 18:47 11.07.2024
Finally, a university with courage and honor. Amen!
Gerald Flanders 17:47 11.07.2024
It's about freaking time the deans of Universities across this country should be doing the same, and perhaps new laws purposed against such behavior. These schools get millions from the US goverment.
kevin mahaney 17:46 11.07.2024
Good!! I'd strip them of every dime they had and boot them out of the country!!!
[Anonymous] 17:13 11.07.2024
About time they hold them accountable for their actions.
[Anonymous] 17:12 11.07.2024
California and New York should be so wise. American Jews send your kids to college in southern states.
Sandra Kennedy 17:08 11.07.2024
They can join their friends in California or New York.
Heather Redden 17:04 11.07.2024
Children never learn unless they are punished and enough to make an impact🥴
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