The Daily Free Press of Boston University reports that Harvard University has asked for the charges against four students to be dropped. The four were arrested for heckling FBI Director Robert Mueller. According to a statement released by Harvard, the administration does not condone the students’ behavior but “the University is persuaded that more could have been done in the circumstances to apprise the students that they were in jeopardy of arrest.” At the time of this article’s release, the District Attorney’s office had not yet decided whether to drop charges, but there is precedent for the office to consider the University’s recommendations in cases of nonviolent arrest.

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