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🚨BREAKING | Officials Confirms Raids in Multiple Cities; TAHRIR Coalition Says FBI Agents, Michigan State Police, and Local Officers Targeted Pro-Palestine Organizers

2/ Video shared on Instagram by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, an SJP chapter in Ann Arbor, MI, purports to show the raid at a house of a pro-Palestine University of Michigan activist.

3/ Law enforcement raided multiple homes across Michigan on Wednesday. Officials confirmed the operations but refused to disclose their purpose. The TAHRIR Coalition, a pro-Palestinian advocacy group said the raids targeted University of Michigan pro-Palestine organizers.

4/ ➤ Authorities executed search warrants at locations in Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, and Canton and briefly detained several people, according to the office of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.

6/ ➤ TAHRIR says FBI agents, Michigan State Police, and local officers carried out the raids, detaining six activists and confiscating electronics. All were later released. ➤ The group reports that at one site, officers refused to present warrants when asked.

7/ ➤ Wimmer declined to disclose the investigation’s focus, telling MLive: “We’re not discussing the nature of the investigation at this time.”

8/ ➤ The Ann Arbor Police Department added that the investigation concerns “reported crimes committed in the City of Ann Arbor as well as other jurisdictions,” according to department spokesperson Chris Page.