Columbia college community 'shattered' by police raid

BBC

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Police officers arrived on campuses at Columbia University and The City University of New York’s (CUNY) City College campus Wednesday evening, tasked by school administrators with restoring campus safety.
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In New York, hundreds of New York City police officers entered the grounds of Columbia University’s campus in uptown Manhattan shortly after 9pm on Tuesday night in what the city’s mayor, Eric Adams, described as a “precision” operation to break into an occupied campus building, Hamilton Hall, famous for a 1968 anti-Vietnam war occupation that was also controversially broken up by the police.
Guardian
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NYPD officers apprehended pro-Palestinian students on the Ivy League campus who had taken over Hamilton Hall, causing considerable damage and destruction to the building.
Daily Mail
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The police crackdown marked the latest escalation in tensions between the authorities and pro-Palestine college protesters at demonstrations that have exploded across university campuses in the United States, and have also spread to other parts of the world.
Aljazeera

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