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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.
BOSTON — Boston police arrested 108 pro-Palestinian protesters at the Emerson College encampment early Thursday in a showdown over setting up tents on a public way.
Wu said while she and her team review all body camera footage from the incident, the city needed to take action to remove the tents that were set up in an alley by the school, which she described as a fire and public safety hazard.
"There were safety concerns and the safety risks were growing," she said.
Encampments have spread to dozens of campuses across the US.