As bombs drop on Rafah and campus protests against the genocide in Palestine grow, UNC Asheville officials respond with petty, racist bureaucracy. They're demanding protesters show police their i.d. and targeting a Black, trans faculty member.
UNC Asheville police targeted Blu Buchanan, an assistant professor of sociology who's been vocally supportive of Palestinian liberation and protests against the escalating genocide, demanding on Sunday that they show i.d. or face arrest. This is backed up by witness accounts and video...
More in my latest reporting at the Asheville Blade.
