Dana Nessel booed, shouted down by Democrats’ Washtenaw delegation at state convention

Alco­holic Attor­ney Gen­er­al Dana Nes­sel suf­fered a humil­i­at­ing rebuke at the Democ­rats’ state con­ven­tion in Detroit this past week­end.

Accord­ing to Demo­c­rat wit­ness­es, Rep. Deb­bie Din­gell intro­duced Dana Nes­sel, describ­ing her as a “jus­tice war­rior” to the approx­i­mate­ly 400 Democ­rats in the Dis­trict 6 cau­cus meet­ing.

The 6th Dis­trict includes Washt­e­naw and parts of Wayne and Oak­land coun­ties.

That was when the room erupt­ed in boo­ing and shout­ing. Nes­sel was shout­ed down and unable to speak. A source added that Nes­sel was “invis­i­ble” for the remain­der of the con­ven­tion.

Many Democ­rats are enraged at Dana Nes­sel for pur­su­ing felony charges against eleven pro-Pales­tine stu­dents at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan that camped out on the Diag for an extend­ed peri­od last year in protest of the war in Gaza.

Nes­sel charged them with felony resist­ing and obstruct­ing police, say­ing they “used phys­i­cal force to counter” the police offi­cers who were try­ing to clear them from the encamp­ment they estab­lished on the Diag. The defen­dants’ sup­port­ers con­tend they have a First Amend­ment a right to demon­strate on the cam­pus.

The stu­dents have also filed a fed­er­al law­suit alleg­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan vio­lat­ed their free speech and oth­er con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of stu­dents protest­ing the war.