Dozens arrested at Columbia University as New York police disperse Gaza protest
by Diana Ramirez-Simon, Jonathan Yerushalmy, Edward H from US news | The Guardian on (#6MFQ2)
NYPD officers move on to campus on Tuesday evening to clear out Hamilton Hall building taken over by protesters, with reports of more arrests at City College of New York
Dozens of students have been arrested after hundreds of New York City police officers entered Columbia University on Tuesday night to clear out an academic building that had been taken over as part of a pro-Palestinian protest.
Live video images showed police in riot gear marching on the campus in upper Manhattan, the focal point of nationwide student protests opposing Israel's war in Gaza. Police used an armoured vehicle with a bridging mechanism to gain entry to the second floor of the building.
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