(CBS DETROIT) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced on Thursday that she has filed charges against 11 people in connection with protests at the University of Michigan.
The charges were filed on Wednesday in 15th District Court in Washtenaw County. Officials say none of the defendants have been arraigned.
Nine of the people were charged with trespassing for refusing to vacate an encampment that was set up on the university’s Diag earlier this year. Seven of those people were also charged with resisting and obstructing a police officer related to the dismantling of the encampment for allegedly attempting to halt or push back police.
Additionally, a university alumnus is charged with disturbing the peace and attempted ethnic intimidation, while another person not affiliated with the university is charged with two counts of malicious destruction of property related to a counterprotest on the Diag on April 25. Officials say the alumnus is accused of kicking flags belonging to protestors, while the other person is accused of taking multiple Israeli flags, breaking two of them, and throwing them in a garbage can.