The Santa Clara County District Prosecutor’s Office recently invoiced a dozen people to have broken into a building at the University of Stanford campus, barricading itself inside and vandalizing administrative offices during an anti-Israelian destructive demonstration at the Liberal Northern California School Elite last June.
The prosecutors said that the 12 masked people, whose age varied from 19 to 32, allegedly “broken windows and furniture, false blood cameras and disabled security cameras”.
There were hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, according to a press release from the district prosecutor’s office.
Students examine the graffiti near the office of the president of the University of Stanford in Palo Alto, California, on June 5, 2024. (AP photo / Nic COURY)
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Each accused is accused of crime of vandalism and plot of intrusion crime, according to officials. They will be arrested later this month at the Hall of Justice in San Jose and, if they were guilty, will be faced with incarceration and restitution.
Graffiti near the office of the president of the University of Stanford in Palo Alto, California, on June 5, 2024. (AP photo / Nic COURY)
Around 5:30 a.m. on June 5, 2024, demonstrations began outside building 10 on the Stanford campus, which houses the office of the University President. The agitators painted outside the building, while another person broke a window, according to the press release.
“Before the cameras were covered, several suspects were recorded by transporting equipment in building 10 and in the barricade of doors using ladders, furniture and additional equipment that they brought in the building,” according to the DA office.
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Officials said other demonstrators inside the building began to record social media videos that “listed a series of requests”. The anti-Israeli demonstrations were born on university campuses across the United States last year, the demonstrators demanding that their universities will unfold companies doing business with Israel while the war of the Gaza Strip targeting Hamas terrorists for the attack on October 7 against Israel.
The Public Security Department of the University of Stanford responded and asked for help at the Santa Clara County Sheriff and the Palo Alto Police Service.
The agents were able to unravel the barricades around 7 a.m. and stop 13 people, some of whom were the current and former students of Stanford, according to the DA office.
Students pass in front of graffiti near the office of the president of the University of Stanford in Palo Alto, California, on June 5, 2024. (AP photo / Nic COURY)
There have been damage to offices, door frames, furniture and degraded items of false blood splashes in building 10, according to the press release. As Fox News Digital reported last June, the photos shared on X by Stopantisemitism showed graffiti on the wall with insults like: “Kill Cops”, “Burn this S — Down” and “Death to Israel”. The group sang “Palestine will be free, we will release Palestine”.
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The demonstrators’ backpacks were recovered inside the building and included forced input tools such as an electric shredder, hammers, hooks, scissors, screwdrivers, glasses, many straps and cables.
The mobile phones recovered from those who have been arrested have shown encrypted text messages and links to detailed operational plans, according to officials.
Prosecutors allege that communication “said the suspects have met several days in advance to conspire to take up the building,” said the press release.
A campus maintenance worker has a broken window from the office of the president of the University of Stanford in Palo Alto, California. (AP photo / Nic COURY)
“Dissent is American. Vandalism is criminal,” said district prosecutor Jeff Rosen. “There is a luminous line between making a point and committing a crime. These defendants crossed the line in crime when they burst into these offices, barricaded themselves and started a calculated destruction plan.”
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A “DIY occupation guide” shared in the communication stated: “Vandalism? Occupying a space removes the space of the capitalist landscape. A group can decide that it is preferable to destroy or vandalize a space to bring it back to its usual role in good condition.
A journalist student, who had been integrated into the demonstrators but who did not participate in vandalism, was not charged.
Bradford Betz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
