Body cam, radio comms show police targeted student protest leaders

Police targeted two Indiana University student protest leaders for arrest, according to Indiana State Police radio chatter and body camera footage obtained by WFIU/WTIU. ISP arrested Bryce Greene, a doctoral student in informatics, and Aidan Khamis, an undergraduate political science and philosophy major, on April 27, the second day of mass arrests at pro-Gaza demonstrations on campus. The two men have been active in pro-Palestine groups, including the IU Divestment Coalition and Palestine Solidarity Committee. They also had a visible presence at the protest, leading chants and walking between lines of students and police. In a previous interview with WFIU/WTIU, ISP Superintendent Doug Carter affirmed his commitment to free speech within certain limits and made clear that the police’s primary goals were to maintain safety and enforce the university’s& hastily created no tent policy. “Once we got through those tents and they were removed, we didn’t continue to push that crowd,” Carter said. “Then we backed off and let them continue to do what they did.” A case report from the IU Police Department, which assisted in the arrest, sheds some light on the state police decision to focus on the two students that Saturday. It said that state officers...