nothing to do with protesting, but the vandalism that occurred on the University of Michigan, including of a Jewish regent of the University of Michigan, and the brief comment about the vandalism just brushed it aside as though it was not credible.
Here is what the Michigan Attorney General said:
"The raids — at homes in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Canton — were tied to a vandalism investigation and not to immigration issues or on-campus demonstrations against Israel that have taken place over the last year and a half, according to a spokesman for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
“These search warrants were not investigative of protest activity on the campus of the University of Michigan nor the Diag encampment,” the spokesman, Danny Wimmer, said in a statement, referring to the location of Michigan’s pro-Palestinian student encampment last year. “Today’s search warrants are in furtherance of our investigation into multijurisdictional acts of vandalism.”
A viral video showed officers breaking down the door of a home. Pro-Palestinian advocates said the homes all belonged to students or former students at the University of Michigan who have engaged in pro-Palestinian activism."
Of course that would bring into question what actually occurred, and we don't want to have that.
https://www.jta.org/2025/04/24/united-states/authorities-raid-michigan-homes-that-advocates-say-belong-to-pro-palestinian-activists
"The raids — during which some people were detained but not arrested — follow acts of vandalism at the homes of members of the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents, whom pro-Palestinian activists want to cut university ties with Israel.
In December a group of protesters threw rocks through the window of Jordan Acker, a Jewish regent, while he and his children were home in the heavily Jewish Detroit suburb of Huntington Woods, and left pro-Palestinian graffiti on his car. Non-Jewish regents at the university have also been targeted by protesters in their own homes.
Acker declined to comment on the raids Wednesday. He previously called the targeting of his own home “terrorism” and “Klan-like.”
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