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Students for Justice in Palestine Threatened with Arrest at Sanders Rally

HeadlineOct 05, 2015

Members of the Boston chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine say they were approached by police at Saturday’s Bernie Sanders rally in Boston and told the Sanders campaign was asking them to take down their signs, which read “Will Ya #FeelTheBern 4 Palestine?” The activists say that after they began filming the interaction, they were told they had to leave or face arrest for “verbal trespassing.”

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