New York City Mayor Eric Adams in an interview Sunday defended the actions taken by the New York Police Department (NYPD) in response to campus protests. “We want to ensure we protect democracy and the right to protest,” Adams said in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week.” “But we have an obligation that, when…
"Columbia created this mess and Columbia – not New Yorkers - should pay to clean it up," members of the City Council's Common Sense Caucus wrote in a scathing letter to university officials.
More than half of 98 protesters arrested at Northeastern University last weekend are not affiliated with the large urban school in Boston, university officials said Thursday.
Pro-Palestine demonstrators returned to the University of Utah campus to continue their protest efforts. The protest later moved to the Salt Lake County Metro Jail after one of the organizers was arrested.
NEW YORK — Hundreds of NYPD officers in riot gear stormed Columbia University Tuesday evening, forcing out pro-Palestinian student protesters who had had seized an administration building and making dozens of arrests. The NYPD was also arresting protesters gathering in the streets surrounding the Manhattan campus following the removal of students from the building. Social media posts from ...
Columbia University authorized NYPD officers to remove occupying protesters from the school's Hamilton Hall, which had been taken over for nearly 24 hours.