A pro-Palestine occupation of part of New York’s Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion as riot police stormed the campus and made hundreds of arrests.
The protests have been going on for weeks, sparking similar demonstrations at some 50 campuses across the United States. Police entered an upper storey of Hamilton Hall – renamed Hind Hall by protesters in memory of a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza – during the late evening on Tuesday.
Authorities at Columbia said they had no choice but to bring police in, saying Hamilton Hall “had been occupied, vandalised, and blockaded”. Shortly before 2300 local time [GMT 0400] on Tuesday, the NYPD said the building had been cleared and that about 100 people had been arrested. They also said there had been no one resisting arrest and that there had not been any injuries.
Mayor Eric Adams later said that police arrested about 300 people at Columbia and City College of New York. Many of those arrested were charged with trespassing and criminal mischief.
Police had shut down several city blocks ahead of the raid as hundreds of officers gathered outside the campus, many of them carrying zip ties. Arrests began shortly after 2100 local time. Detained protesters were led away from the campus down Amsterdam Avenue to waiting police buses, some of them carried by officers.
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