On September 13, the Detroit Metro Times ran a story based on an interview with Rashida Tlaib in which she denounced the filing of felony charges against pro-Palestinian protesters by Michigan AG Dana Nessel. Almost two weeks later, what she didn’t actually say in that interview – but was accused of saying anyway – remains a national story. (Short version of all this is here.)
She argued that Nessel was applying the law inconsistently, because demonstrably more violent demonstrations on other issues had not drawn charges from the AG. “We’ve had the right to dissent, the right to protest,” Tlaib said. “We’ve done it for climate, the immigrant rights movement, for Black lives, and even around issues of injustice among water shutoffs. But it seems that the attorney general decided if the issue was Palestine, she was going to treat it differently, and that alone speaks volumes about possible biases within the agency she runs.”….more
