NYPD arrests over 100 at pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University


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USA Today— NEW YORK — Police arrested more than 100 protesters on Columbia University's campus Thursday after they set up encampments to protest...

CNN—Over 100 people arrested as NYPD breaks up pro-Palestinian protest at Columbia University, law enforcement source says. More than 100 people were arrested by New York Police Department officers on a preliminary charge of criminal trespass, according to a law enforcement official, as police entered Columbia University on Thursday to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest that began a day earlier as the university’s president testified before a House committee about the school’s response to antisemitism. The individuals were detained with no resistance, and the university is named as the complainant since the incident...

ABC7 New York—Over 100 arrested as NYPD clears pro-Palestinian demonstrators from Columbia University campus. These protests come after the university's president testified in a House hearing to gauge antisemitism on Columbia's campus.

Fortune—Dozen of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale University after sweeping arrests at Columbia last week. Pro-Palestinian encampments have emerged on other campuses, including at the University of Michigan, New York University, and MIT.