Nineteen-year-old pro-Palestinian demonstrator Joy Ellis was arrested May 17 on the lawn of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville campus, the second time in the past three nights Ellis has been arrested on a charge of misdemeanor criminal trespass during a demonstration.
Ellis and the 10 others arrested May 15 had been warned by university officials they would be subject to immediate arrest, without a warning, if they appeared on campus again.
Ellis is not a University of Tennessee at Knoxville student or employee.
Since the demonstrations began May 1, there have been arrests on three nights: May 2, May 15 and May 17. After the May 2 arrests, university officials carved out a space reservation for demonstrators on the lawn at the student union to occupy between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. every day.
The second set of arrests, on May 15, occurred across Cumberland Avenue on a university sidewalk outside the School of Law after demonstrators declined to leave when warned by police they would be arrested if they did not.