Boston police tore down a pro-Palestinian encampment on Emerson College’s campus overnight, arresting more than 100 people, and appeared poised to do the same to a new demonstration that formed at Northeastern University’s campus Thursday afternoon.
Dozens of people, apparently including students and faculty, formed a ring around an encampment at Northeastern’s Centennial Common. After several hours, a large group of police officers surrounded the group and asked them to leave. A third ring of people, media and spectators, formed around the edge of the park.
Boston police told NBC News that’d made no arrests as of about 3:15 p.m. NBC10 Boston has reached out to Northeastern and Northeastern police on the situation.
The ring of police appeared to withdraw, leading to a cheer from the ring of protesters, who, like other groups across the nation, were calling on their university to divest from Israeli companies and denounce the ongoing …