Michigan student released after campus assault arrest

A University of Michigan student was taken into custody after police said officers witnessed her assaulting Liz Benichou, a woman unaffiliated with the university, during an unpermitted campus event in Ann Arbor. The student was processed and released while the case awaited warrant authorization or review by the Washtenaw County Prosecutors Office, according to police statements. Video described in reports shows the woman knocking Benichou to the ground before an officer intervened and detained her. The woman was also seen confronting online creator Joseph Anthony Redden, known as The Older Millennial, at a table displaying signs posing questions about Islam. Reports say she struck Redden with her phone; that allegation was recounted by Benichou and others involved in the event. Benichou said the confrontation began after she and others discussed what the woman could wear or say in Iran. Benichou said she referred to restrictions on speech and women’s freedoms there, and that the woman then lunged at her. Descriptions of the preceding exchange vary in detail, and the supplied accounts do not establish a complete independent record of it. After the fall, an officer took the...