NYPD enters campus Tuesday evening in reported move to dispel students who took over academic building earlier in the dayUS campus protests – live updatesHundreds of New York City police officers entered Columbia University on Tuesday evening to clear an academic building taken over by pro-Palestinian students the day before, as tensions surrounding the students’ campus encampment for Gaza have roiled the New York school for two weeks.Live video images showed police in riot gear marching onto the upper Manhattan campus, the focal point of nationwide student protests opposing Israel’s war in Gaza. Continue reading…
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Author : Diana Ramirez-Simon and Guardian staff
Publish date : 2024-05-01 04:53:03
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