“These raids were very much seen as an escalation by the state attorney general, who’s expressed quite a bit of an extreme reaction against the students’ activism on the University of Michigan campus,” said John Philo, executive and legal director of the Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice …Nessel, who asked the FBI to carry out the raids … has extensive personal, political, and financial ties to the University of Michigan, which bypassed local prosecutors by enlisting Nessel to crack down on pro-Palestine protesters … According to Philo and Liz Jacob, also of the Sugar Law Center … Folks were shocked, especially to see that the FBI was executing an attorney general warrant, Jacob told The Intercept in an interview. I’ve never seen that in my experience, and we have not seen that in Michigan around pro-Palestine protests or on any other protests, to my knowledge.”