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Campus protests live: NYC police arrest around 300 at universities in 'massive operation', mayor says - BBC News Campus protests live: NYC police arrest around 300 at universities in 'massive operation', mayor says - BBC News
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Phil McCausland Protesters at some US universities have been clashing with police, as demonstrations over the conflict in Gaza continue.
Reporting outside Columbia University Clashes between police and protesters have erupted at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), while overnight, police said they cleared a building at Columbia University in New York, which had been occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.
Meghnad Bose, a 31-year-old journalism graduate student at Columbia University, reported on the New York Police Department's (NYPD) raid on campus as a student journalist last night. Here are the latest developments:
He says police forced him and other journalists to the edge of campus while the arrests were underway. Speaking at a news conference earlier, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said approximately 300 arrests were made at Columbia University and the City University of New York last night after police officers raided the campuses
Bose says the officers were pretty “rough and aggressive” with the protesters. Police say the response at Columbia was to disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who'd taken over Hamilton Hall, a building on campus
He says he knew one protester who was released from police custody at 07:00 local time (12:00 BST). Adams says external actors were responsible for creating what he described as "a movement to radicalise young people”
The student protesters have been largely peaceful, Bose adds, saying he didn’t believe that police’s behaviour was necessary. Police commissioner Edward Caban said the universities "worked for weeks" to negotiate with protesters, but that "public safety was a real concern"
“Yesterday, the NYPD just seemed far more aggressive in the manner in which it was dispersing protesters, moving them away,” he says. A student at Columbia University told the BBC that the police were "rough and aggressive" with demonstrators
Earlier at a news conference, we heard from police commissioner Edward Caban, who said officers intervened because "public safety was a real concern". Meanwhile, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, police arrested about dozen protesters on Wednesday morning
"The NYPD was called in to do their job," he added. There remains a large police presence at the UCLA
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