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By mid-morning, as students were periodically released from police precincts throughout the city, the mood on the downtown Boston campus was subdued.
The encampment protest launched at Northeastern Thursday morning drew hundreds of Northeastern students to Centennial Common throughout the day. As the afternoon went on, groups of outside participants from Boston-area universities and organizations joined the masses of people chanting and organizing on the lawn. Each demonstrator had a different perspective and reason behind their involvement....
Students at Harvard, MIT, and Tufts staged similar protests, part of a national movement by college students demanding their universities sever ties with any company that is aiding Israeli military action in Gaza.
Across Boston campuses, students, faculty and staff have set up encampments in support of Palestine. Protests have garnered attention from many Boston-based and national news outlets amid a nationwide wave of pro-Palestine campus activism. Protesters with Huskies for a Free Palestine, or HFP, began forming an encampment on Centennial Common Thursday morning at 8 a.m....
A police report reveals new allegations about the resistance that police faced while breaking up the protest and the injuries that officers suffered.