Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, was arrested Saturday during a campus protest. Lest her arrest not get
Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, was arrested Saturday during a campus protest.
Lest her arrest not get the publicity the campaign wanted, Stein posted video of it on the social media platform X.
“Jill Stein and her Campaign Manager and Deputy Campaign Manager, Jason Call and Kelly Merrill-Cayer, have been arrested at Washington University in St. Louis while supporting a protest against WashU’s ties to the war on Gaza,” she wrote.
Stein, who could attract leftist supporters who think President Joe Biden isn’t leftist enough, was among 80 people arrested Saturday, according to KDSK-TV in St. Louis.
Stein told the station she was charged with assault.
She was booked into the jail just before 7:30 p.m. Saturday and released at 1:30 a.m. Sunday, KDSK reported.
“I sat a long time sitting alone in a cell, and I had no idea— ‘Did anybody even know I was there?’ I was separated from the group, and I was like, ‘Am I going be there all night or in here for a week?’” she said.
