A student who was arrested while praying on campus in 2018 is suing the University for enabling a “negligent, discriminatory and intentional act,” allegedly having been assaulted by police during the arrest. In a five-page complaint filed in the D.C. Superior Court Thursday, Juanita Abii, a fourth-year graduate student, alleges the University harmed and discriminated against her when a priest’s request for her to leave the GW Newman Center, which houses a Catholic chapel, after closing time escalated to her arrest and allegedly violent assault while in custody. The $1 million lawsuit levies allegations of intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence against the University, which Abii alleges is responsible for unnecessarily calling in police.