Jun 6, 2025
University Is Using Investigators To SURVEIL Pro-Palestine Students
The University of Michigan hired undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian students and groups.
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The Guardian reports that the University
of Michigan has hired private
investigators to spy on its pro-Palestine
students, both on and off campus.
So, according to reports, the undercover
investigators have been trailing members
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of pro-Palestinian groups on campus,
eavesdropping on them
and recording their conversations,
yelling at them and cursing at them.
On one occasion, the investigator
drove a car at a student,
and then the student had to jump out of
the way before getting hit by the car.
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And there's video
of these students being harassed.
One student, Josiah Walker,
attempted to confront an investigator who
had been following him, and in response,
the investigator faked a disability.
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Are you still handicapped? What's that?
What do you want. How are you doing.
I didn't know U of M them
had special needs kids.
I didn't know people. Oh, whatever.
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That was actually really dumb.
Okay, so then he attempted
to accuse Walker, who was black,
of threatening and robbing him.
Well, is that I obviously
got you now, you two.
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You got me doing what I heard.
You step back.
You can cover your face. Oh, I'm.
You see my arm?
You see the face? He's threatening me.
He's threatening me.
And this lady,
you want to follow me too, right?
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Right.
All right, so who are these people?
This is from the Guardian report.
The undercover investigators appear
to work for Detroit based City Shield,
a private security group, and some
of their evidence was used by Michigan
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prosecutors to charge and jail students,
according to a Guardian review of police
records, university spending records
and video collected in Legal Discovery.
Most charges were later dropped.
Public spending records
from the Board of Regents.
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The school's governing body show the
university paid at least $800,000 between
June 2023 and September 2024 to City
Shields parent company, America Shield.
So reports show that the university
has overall spent $3 million
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on security and consultants in an effort
to address students activity on campus,
specifically in regards
to pro-Palestinian groups on campus.
Michigan's Democratic Attorney General
Dana Nessel, along with Trumps FBI,
have authorized raids on the students.
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The university also had Nessel
prosecute students charged with alleged
crimes during the 2024 protests.
Normally, local prosecutors
would have been used,
but they requested that the state
attorney general get involved instead.
When asked about the surveillance,
the University of Michigan said
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that it had not received any complaints
about the investigators,
but they also didn't deny that they were
in fact surveilling their students.
Here is what a spokesperson
for the university had to say.
Any security measures in place are solely
focused on maintaining a safe and secure
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campus environment, and are
never directed at individuals or groups
based on their beliefs or affiliations.
The university has used evidence
acquired through the investigators
in internal disciplinary hearings.
Also, the administration cannot
initiate cases against students.
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Only other students and or staff can.
So it spent $1.5 million on two
consultants who were hired to initiate
internal disciplinary action, according
to four attorneys who and students
who went through the process.
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So last month, Nessel and the FBI
raided several protesters homes,
and students alleged that the surveillance
has only intensified since.
Okay, so the surveillance
of students is troubling.
The weaponizing of the state
attorney general is troubling.
The university's willingness
or unwillingness really to, you know,
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take some accountability
regarding what they're subjecting
their students to is, is is unbelievable.
So do you think that universities
will be able to maintain enrollment
in applications when this is
the way that they're
unapologetically treating their students?
Because even if I wasn't pro-Palestine
or wasn't planning to join any kind
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of pro-Palestinian groups on campus,
I still wouldn't want to go to a school
that spends millions of dollars
for adults to harass their students, and
also millions of dollars is ridiculous.
Yeah, so that's a good point, man.
Now, if you send your kid to an elite
school, they better not be for peace.
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Otherwise, they'll be hounded.
And look at the irony here.
We're, hired people to intimidate
and bully our own students.
Why?
Because we were worried about students
being intimidated and bullied.
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Okay. Were you?
Were you? I don't think you were at all.
I don't think this has anything
to do with anti-Semitism.
I think this is all an effort
to protect Israel.
I think it's super obvious.
And there's a good question
as to who's behind this.
Who was it? Just administrators?
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Or was it alumni that some alumni that
asked, hey, anyone criticizing Israel?
You better.
Here. Here's some.
Where did the money come from?
Did they take it out of tuition here?
Give me your tuition.
And I'm going to hire
private investigators
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to try to collect evidence on you.
And then give it over to the cops
and have you arrested.
Have you arrested?
Okay, so who's going to go
to University of Michigan?
Who's going to go to Columbia?
Who's going to go to these schools now
where if, God forbid,
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you criticize a foreign government,
they'll not only sometimes
deny you a diploma after you paid them
a ton of money, and they should be sued
to no end over that.
Will try to ruin your career prospects.
We might arrest you and deport you.
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And by the way, a lot of the MAGA guys
were like, well, I mean, look,
if they're here on a visa, I don't care.
Just get them out of here. Whatever.
Right.
That's not a great attitude to begin with,
but this is also for us citizens.
If you're a US citizen
and you protest Israel
on a college campus, it doesn't matter.
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They're going to come after you,
they're going to target you.
They're going to terrorize you.
And so the Pinkertons are back,
and you see that piece of crap that a thug
investigator immediately pulling the,
you know, the racism card there
and saying, oh, no, I'm being attacked
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by this black student.
No, you're the one hounding him.
You're the one trying
to get him in trouble.
So I think what University of Michigan
is doing is disgusting.
And they should tell us
who said to spend the $3 dollars.
Bullying, intimidating
and trying to arrest your own students.
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And did you use people's tuition
for that crap?
So this is this is not the America
that I grew up in.
Man, there's this is terrible.
I can't stand this anymore.
All right, Brett, what do you think?
So I have two main points.
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One is five minutes ago,
relatively speaking.
My dear friends,
Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson,
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, we're all talking
about how important it was to have
free speech and a free exchange of ideas
on college campuses.
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And they were talking about
how horrible it is.
The deep state is probably lurking
in their car outside
listening to your conversations.
Five minutes later, people who are trying
to stop free speech on college campuses,
largely, obviously at the direction
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of the Trump administration.
They're not keeping this secret,
are lurking outside people's houses
and following them
and listening to their conversations.
Right.
So, my dear new friends, those same people
Joe Rogan, Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk,
Tucker Carlson, where are you at?
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I hear a little bit of it
from from Joe Rogan.
I hear it louder again.
It's happening again.
So here's yet another example of it.
And it's okay.
I think I should we should give
everybody permission to come out and call
what's call this weird
because it is wildly hypocritical and it
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seems like they aren't for free speech.
They're for one kind of speech,
the kind that agrees with them.
Now, the other thing, it's like, I don't
think these guys who are against free
speech and are for the surveillance state
really understand what Americans want.
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We just we're fine
with you listening to us.
You just need to be better at it
than this guy.
Like I say yes to all kinds of, like,
terms of service that I know are selling
my information to everyone in the world.
I say yes to that stuff
because I don't want to know the extent
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to which it's happening.
I'd be fine if someone's following me,
as long as he's not just sitting outside
on the street being this bad
and pretending to know sign language
when he obviously does not know
sign language, figure it out, buddy.
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Figure it out. You're so bad at this.
I thought this was a good university.
I thought Michigan.
We have had interns from Michigan,
and they're they're wicked smart.
But the university, if you know,
they need to do a better job of hiring
their their private investigators.
- Yeah, I would have said, how much.
- Are they paying this guy?
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But we know how much
they're paying this guy.
And his whole his whole his whole company.
It's really the amount of money
that this university is spending
on something like this is egregious.
It's unacceptable.
And to Jeong's question,
like, yeah, are they getting the money
from people's tuition?
Is this what the students
who go there want to support.
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They're the ones who are being harassed.
Did the kid who's being harassed
did his tuition pay for this guy
to track him and follow him?
It's unbelievable.
And the fact that this is happening
in universities
is always additionally hurtful, right?
Universities.
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When I was in college,
that was not the experience
that I had going to college, right?
Colleges.
That is where you're supposed to have
these this higher level of thinking,
at least thought, right?
You're taught how to think for yourself.
And here is a university.
How could you possibly teach a student
to think for themselves and to analyze
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things based on fact and based on reason,
when this is what happens to them
whenever they exercise that I don't
understand what's going to happen here.
I hope that there's some kind
of accountability for the university,
and I hope that they get rid of these
people who are harassing their students
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or or I really hope that people just stop
going there and apply somewhere else.
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