The University of California, Berkeley and its police force failed to protect Jews — and they did not identify and apprehend suspects who allegedly attacked Jewish students on the public school’s campus — according to a complaint under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act announced on Tuesday.

Yael Lerman, founding director of the legal department at StandWithUs, told JNS that Berkeley police said it did not approach suspects “while they remained with a large group because that might cause a riot.”

The explanation of police inaction during the Oct. 16, 2023 event “wholly fails to explain the refusal to approach them after they parted from the group,” Lerman said. And the problem was “compounded,” she said, at a Sept. 12, 2024 incident, during which the same visibly Jewish student again pointed attackers out to Berkeley police.

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