New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD brass on Wednesday continued to insist “outside agitators” were responsible for escalating pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University. But they declined to provide much evidence to support their claim,
Hundreds of protesters were arrested across several campuses, as universities and police crack down on what they say are outsiders escalating pro-Palestinian demonstrations. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that nearly 300 people were arrested at Columbia University and City College of New York.
As pro-Palestinian protests continue to affect college campuses in the U.S., New York Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday said nearly 300 were arrested the night before at Columbia University and City University of New York.
Muslim organizations and students blasted UCLA officials and police in a Wednesday news conference, saying they failed to intervene as students in pro-Palestinian encampment on the Los Angeles campus were verbally harassed,
A police officer who was involved in clearing protesters from a Columbia University administration building earlier this week fired his gun inside the hall, a spokesman for District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office confirmed Thursday.
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Counter-protesters “forcefully" attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, the university's chancellor said, and activists clashed with police officers who destroyed their tents at the University of Wisconsin in Madison,
An NYPD officer’s gun was accidentally fired while protesters were being removed from a Columbia University building on Tuesday night, according to authorities. Columbia’s administration asked the NYPD to handle protesters inside Hamilton Hall.
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Police have arrested more than 2,000 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks. That's according to a tally by . Demonstrations
NYPD raid of an occupied administration building at Columbia University resulted in the arrest of more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters amid a growing debate over who was behind the violent turn of events in the weekslong campus protest.
Hundreds of police officers on the UCLA campus were poised to move in on a fortified encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who remained despite being ordered to leave.
Police have removed barricades and begun dismantling pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment in a chaotic and tense scene at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hundreds of proteste
Announcements broadcasted on the University of California, Los Angeles campus Wednesday evening told demonstrators to disperse or they would be arrested and face a misdemeanor charge. The protesters largely stayed in place,
A brawl erupted at UCLA after pro-Israel protesters tried to remove barricades at a pro-Palestinian encampment, and activists at the University of Wisconsin in Madison clashed with police officers who destroyed their tents.
But social-media users unearthed old posts from Columbia University’s Public Safety department that recommended the Kryptonite bike locks in question to students who biked and even offered a discount for purchasing them.
More than 100 individuals arrested at protests at two campuses in New York were not affiliated with the schools, according to the mayor and New York Police Department (NYPD) commissioner. At Columbia University on Tuesday,
Nearly half of the protesters arrested at the Columbia University and City College campuses during violent anti-Israel unrest weren’t students, police sources said Thursday — a day after Mayor Eric Adams warned “outside agitators” were radicalizing youngsters.
Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical
For some, the term "outside agitator" brings back memories of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously wrote about being called an outside agitator in the now historic letter from the Birmingham jail in April 1963.
New York Mayor Eric Adams is attributing the escalation of protests at Columbia to “outside agitators," casting blame on forces beyond the student body.