Fifty officers entered the emblematic Hamilton Hall building after demonstrators in favor of the Palestinian people barricaded themselves inside.
The New York (United States) police arrested more than a hundred people after a burglary on Tuesday evening Columbia University, where demonstrators in favor of the Palestinian people have continued their protests after several days. Yesterday they broke into the Hamilton Hall building, one of the most emblematic centers of education, also a symbol of the 1968 mobilizations against the Vietnam War.
About fifty officers entered the building through one of the windows from the second floor after the demonstrators barricaded themselves inside, the American television network CNN reported.
Before this action, the police had already urged the students to do so they camped on campus to leave, after which a struggle began and the first arrests took place.
According to a university spokesperson, the demonstrators are not students of the center and the police access to the campus is justified by the ‘occupation’, ‘vandalism’ and ‘blockade’ of the facilities.
The New York Police Department announced this on campus has already been cleared of the 200 students which until then remained anchored in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, which had become the epicenter of mobilizations that also spread to other educational centers in the country.
The day before, the university itself began suspending students from participating in these events, meaning they will not be able to complete the semester or graduate and will not be allowed into university housing or academic buildings.
Source: EITB
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