To Suppress the Latest Protest, Columbia Unveils a Violent New Form of Campus Policing Protestors rechristened the Lawrence A. Wien Reading Room “Basel Al-Araj Popular University” in honor of the late Palestinian writer before Public Safety and the NYPD arrived.

Columbia University authorizes NYPD arrests of peaceful Gaza solidarity protestors at Butler Library—press and legal observers barred as academic protest rights erode.
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≧40–50 #students, their hands cuffed w/plastic zip-ties, were seen being loaded into #NYPD vans & buses outside #ButlerLibrary as officers swept through 6 six-story bldg to round up other #protesters who refused to leave.

#Police arrived on campus in force at the request of #Columbia ofcls who […]

Helicopters over Harlem. Leave those students alone! #ButlerLibrary

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