Students protest outside Yale president's house
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue at Yale University and other colleges across the U.S.
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrations continue at Yale University and other colleges across the U.S.
Videos from Wednesday night show officers tackling two of the four protesters at the intersection of Rose and Alexander Walk. Two of the four people arrested are Yale students.
Starting at around 6 a.m. Tuesday, around 50 police officers enclosed the encampment on Cross Campus with caution tape and announced that anyone in the encampment would be arrested and face “emergency suspension.”
The encampment began Friday, continuing a weeklong surge of protests on Beinecke Plaza in favor of military weapons divestment. Over 600 pro-Palestine protesters have gathered; pro-Israel demonstrators also were on the Plaza but left at 11 p.m.
Two Yale administrators, Hannah Peck and Andrew Forsythe, read a message that if the approximately 250 protesters present did not vacate Beinecke Plaza and remove tents from the encampment by 11:30 p.m., may face disciplinary action.