Two UF protesters enter into pre-trial diversion agreements
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Roseanna Bisram, 20, and Keely Gliwa, 23, have entered into pre-trial diversion agreements that will likely lead to the dismissal of their respective charges of resisting an officer at a pro-Palestinian protest on the UF campus on April 29.
Roseanna Bisram
Roseanna Yashoda Bisram, 20, was reportedly actively protesting and wearing a mask in public; she allegedly failed to obey a lawful command to vacate the premises when the University of Florida Police Department (UFPD) ordered protesters to disperse and was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). She was originally charged with failure to obey an officer, wearing a mask on public property, and resisting an officer without violence, all misdemeanors.
On June 7, a formal charge of resisting an officer without violence was filed, and the other two charges were dropped. On August 20, Bisram entered into a pre-trial diversion agreement in which she agreed to refrain from violating any law for six months, pay $150 for the cost of prosecution, and donate $150 to PACE or perform 12 hours of community service. According to the agreement, if she complies with these conditions for six months, the charges will be dismissed.
According to her LinkedIn profile, she was a mechanical engineering student at UF at the time of her arrest and expected to graduate in 2026, but she has been suspended from UF and trespassed from campus for three years. She earned her AA at the College of Central Florida and graduated #10 in her class from West Port High School in Ocala.
Keely Gliwa
Keely Nicole Gliwa, 23, was reportedly actively protesting and allegedly failed to obey a command from UFPD to disperse; she was also allegedly covering her face and concealing her identity. She was arrested by FHP and was originally charged with failure to obey an officer, wearing a mask on public property, and resisting an officer without violence, all misdemeanors.
On June 7, a formal charge of resisting an officer without violence was filed, and the other two charges were dropped. On August 21, Gliwa entered into a pre-trial diversion agreement in which she agreed to refrain from violating any law for six months, pay $150 for the cost of prosecution, and donate $150 to AMI Kids Gainesville or perform 12 hours of community service. According to the agreement, if she complies with these conditions for six months, the charges will be dismissed.
According to her LinkedIn profile, she graduated from UF with a Bachelor’s in Biology in 2023 and expected to graduate with her Master’s in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in May. According to a media release from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Gliwa was suspended and trespassed from campus for three years and did not graduate as planned.
The remaining cases
The seven remaining cases are still working their way through the court system, but Charly Pringle, 21, is currently in the Alachua County Jail after being arrested on August 30 for violating a trespassing order on the UF campus. She is also facing a separate sworn complaint for trespassing and petit theft, but the sworn complaint has not been posted to the court system.
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Figures…demonrats get away with everything.
They are both banished from UF, the place they earned a place in by impressive academic achievements and one earned a graduate degree, both in difficult disciplines which we need for the future. How is that getting “away with everything”?
But they don’t have curiosity about the true history of Israel. Commies more likely.
If so, they’re the only 2 left in the world. You’re living in the 80s and need a new bogeyman.
Ever notice, ‘Jizzeman’ you’re almost always voted down? Who’s living in the ’80s?
Actually, they didn’t get away with everything, they threw away their chances of graduating (although the taxpayers likely absorbed the cost), a pretty high price to pay for stupidity.
Neither one probably has any true understanding of what they were protesting. Probation should include a field trip across the big pond to see if they could make the cut with terrorists in Gaza.
@ Bear9765
Spoken like a true fascist.
Lower the temperature liberal. Joe has commanded you to turn the other cheek. I know the truth stings sometimes.
You should look up the definition of words before you use them publicly. That way you won’t come across as quite as ignorant.
Your too quick with the labeling and name calling. Give logic and reason a chance or you will languish in your self imposed illogical lunacy.
@ Paulie: so if anyone disagrees with you that makes them a fascist? Hum, I thought that the free exchange of thoughts and opinions is a good thing, not something where you call someone with a different opinion nasty names. That sounds a lot more “fascist” to me than the comment you called fascist.
They look like they were raised in Prizzia’s basement or something. Maybe start by getting them to hang out with some normal, non-woke people of both genders.
What a shallow comment from a clownish simpleton. Whatever they looked like, they have both accomplished much as students and most of us would be proud to have our kids achieve as much.
They look brainwashed. That was my point, since you always miss everybody’s points. Once you start hanging out with a fringe crowd, that becomes the new normal. Instead of trying to save animals or trees or the planet, these poor woke Gen Zs are trying to save terrorists and those who would kill gays like half of them are, so it’s really dumb, regardless of how academically gifted they may nor may not be.
…they may or may not be.
Yeah, I’m sure you’re hip to young people’s fashions, especially when having a mug shot taken, and can read them like a book.
Idiot.
The first thing these two individuals did was sabotage themselves and their careers. These nonsense protests did not bring any solution but made our country look like a drifting boat where the captain and the second on command have no idea what is happening. These two students lost their prestige, created a record on their profile, and will not be seen with respect for many years. Also, Gaza and terrorists will not do anything for them. They had the freedom to protest under the guidelines of the county or even the country, but they became defiant to the law. Your argument, Jazzman, is going nowhere.
Both? I think they’d disagree.
What they were protesting – I hate Hamas and hope for their eradication – is irrelevant to their right to free speech, including peacefully protesting. Being railroaded by a politically motivated UF administration and then facing star chamber punishment is an outrage all should denounce regardless of your position on the issue.
Campus should be a safe space for all students, and we have more Jews here than any other campus nationwide (what I heard). Other protestors at other campuses were and still are blocking Jewish people from entering buildings and certain areas, and there was no telling what direction the protests here would take. There was vandalism at the AEPi house and the Hillel Center. 1,200 people were brutally killed less than a year ago. Stand out on University Avenue and protest (off of State University property). They were given ample opportunity to “move along” and chose not to do so. Don’t ask to be made a martyr if that’s not what you want. “Know when to fold ’em” as Kenny Rogers said.
These 2 were not accused of those incidents, nor have I said they should not have received some punishment. In fact they had as far as UF standard discipline was concerned but then fat cats higher up decided they were handy tools for their political posturing and effectively may have ended their promising academic careers (I think we can assume they can’t transfer to other state schools and may not have the funds to go to private universities). That is way beyond unjust and is cruel and unusual punishment.
Once they’ve had their charges formally dismissed, they can make appeals to have their trespass from campus lifted. Three years is the standard time period. It’s not like UF decided to be extra mean by making it three years. The girl from Ocala is a sophomore, probably still taking basic classes. She’s no more promising than any other sophomore, so stop being a drama queen.
Ridiculous UF punishments for peacefully protesting. There was no violence or physical resistance. These 2 at least are highly accomplished students and Sasse and DeSantis through UF trashed their future and used them as pawns for their own political benefit.
One hopes the UF penalties are challenged and dropped, since in fact they were at 1st put before the usual board that handles these type disciplines and given appropriate and much lighter penalties. Then some higher ups – guess who – got their administration henchman to drop these ridiculous 3 and 4 year banishments to prove what tough guys they are. Jackasses.
Aww you parasites think you can do whatever the he(( you like without consequences! Now you know! You have freedom of choice, not freedom of consequences! If they were as bright as you believe, they would have been aware of the state they are infesting and the FACT that we don’t back down to or allow leftwing scum to play their stupid games in this state! There is a reason the burn loot murder crowd and antifa kept their pathetic, good for nothing rear ends in blue states! These pro terrorist parasites can move to a blue dump and continue protesting for terrorists that love these useful idiots!
Did thousands of children due in Gaza this year or what?
@ Not Kosher: Did hamas torture, rape, and murder 1300 Israeli civilians, including children and infants on Oct. 7?
You defenders of hamas never, ever, mention that part of why this war was started but don’t chew worry, Israel WILL finish it.
Did thousands die on October 7th?
Send them all to Gaza with a one way ticket.
They don’t look Palestinian, or queer.
“A civil rights group, the Philadelphia- based Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said video of Gliwa’s arrest showed Gliwa consoling a student who had a panic attack when the police arrived, urging the student to leave with her after the police ordered everyone to disperse. That’s when Gliwa was arrested.
Gliwa and Bisram had faced additional charges of failing to obey police and wearing a mask during a crime, but the State Attorney’s Office dropped those charges early in its investigation. …
In closed-door administrative punishment proceedings, a university hearing body recommended Gliwa receive only probation. That was overruled by the new dean of students, Chris Summerlin, who suspended her for three years…”
G’ville Sun today
PS The fact that Gliwa was not allowed to graduate with her masters degree in May, if it means she does not have that degree, should be a suable issue and hope she takes UF to the cleaners over it and it costs Summerlin his new cushy job (check his resume and try to figure how he was hired as dean of a top 10 public university with an enrollment of 60k+. He literally came from The Sisters of the Poor U and you won’t recognize any of the 3 schools he earned degrees from). If they can afford paying Sasse $1 million a year until 2028, they can afford it and I hope it comes out of his checks.
From a related Sun article today:
“Early in his tenure as UF president, Sasse told professors in closed-door meetings that he recognized it would be difficult to recruit top performers to move to Gainesville, a college town of about 200,000 in an area of Florida known as “the swamp” because of its humid, rainy weather.”
Yeah, he really liked it here and no wonder no one ever saw him on campus except at basketball and baseball games. Of course, given how nice it is in Cambridge Mass, what with the fabulous weather, proximity to the beach, bass fishing, and quiet neighborhoods next to abandoned factories, these advantages in setting of Harvard and MIT are obvious. How could we compete with that and how did we ever get to top 10 public U status. I’m sure the faculty members who heard his excellent presentation did not take personally his insinuation that none of them were “top performers”.
Look like a couple of drunks
God, do you ever read what you right. Nothing matters about what ifs of these protesters. They violated University rules and now they are being held to the standard. Maybe just maybe they should have thought about what would happen to themselves for violating rules. Now I guess they will have to go out and get regular jobs. The City always needs more ambassadors. Maybe Harris can get them a interview at McDonalds. What a minute she never worked there
Or the Obamas can use some more maids at their multi million dollar beach house in Martha’s Vineyard. I know they can use a new cook.
Do you really think they can cook or have any other useful skills?
Jazz, check out this video of the last UF Homecoming Parade. Skip to 1:49:30 or slightly after. Sasse jokes about the heat and humidity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsHzs8Tbxvg
“I think this is the greatest college town in America right now.” (around 1:55:50)
These two should be sent to Gaza, for a wake up call
Dang Nazis. They should move to Palestine.
They just changed the course of their lives over stupid decisions with life-long impacts.
They should have had to post $10,000 bond would make them think twice about disobeying laws. Not ROR‼️
Why did they let her wear that nose ring for mugshot?
That can be used as a weapon.
Sheriff Gainey needs to straighten that sh!t out.
There should be enhanced penalty because they were concealing their faces with masks!
Why hide your identity if you believe in your cause and its virtuous?
They should have had to post $1000
Bond because they created a nuisance and wasted police time after they were warned.
They need to learn their lesson and stay out of trouble.
Yeah, you guys are all for “freedom” but 2 young women of sterling achievement engage in a peaceful protest and you want them squashed. I don’t use the term much, or at all, but this board is loaded with actual fascists who cheer on the state for punishing those they disagree with. Hey, assaulting police while breaking into the Capitol is protected speech, but these 2 are criminals?
Disgraceful. You don’t believe in freedom.
Good news is, no one cares what you think about them! These parasites could have “protested” at city hall or any number of other public places! UF campus where there are many Jewish students on campus have the RIGHT to feel safe and comfortable! UF told them what they were NOT allowed to do on campus and their entitled rear ends, like most leftists did as they wanted anyway!
Fascist is like racist, you leftwing parasites use terms to label others that you are guilty of! We get it, it’s ok if the left does it! Middle finger!
No one has a right to feel safe and comfortable. That’s a ridiculous assertion.
Let students peacefully protest. It hurts nobody. Everyone hated on the Vietnam War protestors but now we all know how right they were. Hamas has no right killing citizens and Israel has no right killing citizens. Nor does the US have a right to kill citizens. What’s happening is disgusting
Aww jazzy Eastman. You are upset again.