California professor speaks out against charges over pro-Palestinian protest: ‘failure in leadership’

Video of arrest of Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, tenured professor at University of California, Irvine, went viral

As riot police arrested 50 people during a May 2024 pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of California, Irvine, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard was escorted away by riot police, her hands zip-tied behind her back.

A video of the tenured professor speaking passionately to reporters as she was arrested circulated widely on social media. We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy," she says in the video. These police officers out here today - that's thousands of students' scholarships."