Columbia Cleared

From the BBC:

“New York police arrest dozens as protesters cleared from Columbia campus”

New York police have just raided a Columbia University hall to clear out pro-Palestinian students who had barricaded themselves inside.

The activists had taken over the Hamilton Hall building nearly 24 hours earlier amid two weeks of campus protests over the Israel-Gaza war.

About 50 students were arrested and moved out of the building, US media report.

Live footage showed a long line of police in riot gear climbing into the building through a second-storey window, using ladders.

Other officers spread across the campus, holding back crowds of other protesters and onlookers, some of whom chanted: "Shame, shame!"

Officers were seen leading handcuffed protesters to police buses outside the gates of the Ivy League campus in upper Manhattan.

Columbia students have been protesting against their university's investments with Israel, and had draped a banner over the building renaming it Hind's Hall after a six-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, who was killed in Gaza in February.

University administrators had previously threatened expulsion of the students in the building.

Columbia University has been the focal point of student protests over the war - the demonstrations have spread to universities across the country in the past fortnight and hundreds have been arrested.

^ Good Job and Thank you NYPD! ^