A scene from the April 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Deering Meadow on the Northwestern University campus. He called Walberg’s letter a “political attack” and questioned the timing of bringing up the EPD decision nearly two years later. In one, Biss told Schill and NU Chief Operating Officer Luke Figora on the second day of the encampment that “our position has not changed,” matching an email sent by Chief Stewart that morning telling NU that EPD would not assist at that time. Following this, Schill told NU Board Chair Peter Barris that a plan to clear out and arrest the protesters that morning was “on hold since we have too few police” without EPD’s help. If the winds blow the wrong way he will throw you under the bus,” Sacks wrote.