US Pro-Palestine Student Protests: New York Police Enters Columbia University, Arrests Dozens Occupying Campus [Video]

Dozens of New York Police Department (NYPD) officials entered the premises of Columbia University making arrests of pro-Palestine protestors inside the US varsity’s campus. The arrests took place on Tuesday night escalating the tensions further that gripped the campuses across the United States. The arrests took place hours after protesters had caught hold of a campus building.

The protesters had stormed and occupied a building on Columbia University’s main campus overnight, flying a Palestinian flag from Hamilton Hall.

The officers burst through a second-floor window to enter Hamilton Hall, then led demonstrators in zip ties into law enforcement buses parked near campus. In a statement, the university stated that the facility had been “vandalised and blockaded,” leaving the administration with “no choice” except to summon police to campus for the second time in less than two weeks.

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