Three students and one staff member from the University of Cincinnati (UC) will appear in a Kentucky court in August to answer charges related to a protest on the Roebling Suspension Bridge on July 17.
UC student Ameer Alkayali faces felony riot charges for allegedly violent exchanges with Covington police officers attempting to disperse the demonstration. He will appear before a grand jury on Aug. 13 at 1:30 p.m.
Lucas Griffith, a UC journalism student and photography intern with Cincinnati CityBeat, will appear for a pre-trial conference on Aug.14 at 9 a.m. He is charged, along with CityBeat reporter Madeline Fening, with multiple misdemeanors including unlawful assembly, failure to disperse and obstructing a highway.
The Kentucky chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will continue to represent the two journalists. “Our clients were doing their jobs and should have never been arrested in the first place,” William Sharp, senior staff attorney for the chapter, as stated in a recentCityBeatInstagram post. “We look forward to zealously defending them in court.”…