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The New York Police Department estimates the agency may need to deploy about 15 to 20 officers to Columbia University depending on the university’s security needs after Tuesday night’s breakdown of on-campus encampments to secure school grounds, NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey told CNN.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik addressed the campus community in a letter released Wednesday, after police had cleared the school grounds of protests, noting that the “drastic escalation” of months-long protests “pushed the University to the brink."
NYPD Chief of Department Jeffery Maddrey said Tuesday that the department is at the ready to respond to the ongoing chaos at Columbia University since the
Police said the man, who was in a critical condition after the incident, had pamphlets on a "conspiracy theory".
Maxwell Azzarello, 37, doused himself in a liquid before throwing conspiracy-theory pamphlets into the air.