Prosecutor drops charges against civil rights lawyer arrested during law school protest
A Minneapolis prosecutor has decided not to pursue an obstruction case against local civil rights attorney Jordan Kushner, who was arrested last year at a law school event at the University of Minnesota.
City attorney Susan Segal said she exercised prosecutorial discretion in dropping a factually justified misdemeanor case, in order to “allow my office to focus on higher priority matters,” reports the Star Tribune.
However, Kushner says he was acting lawfully when he was arrested Nov. 3 while taking photographs as protesters were removed by police during an Israeli law professor’s lecture. Kushner contends Segal dropped the case “because it was clear that the allegations in the police reports were false,” according to the Minnesota Daily and the Star Tribune.
Before it was dropped Friday, the Hennepin District Court case involved three charges against Kushner—obstruction of legal process, trespassing and disorderly conduct, the Minnesota Daily reports.
Police said he refused to stop filming and was “kicking and screaming” as he was dragged from the room where the lecture took place.
City Pages also has a story.
