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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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17 April: A group of students pitch their tents at Columbia Mike Wendling
University, protesting Israel's actions in Gaza and calling on the university to Reporting from Waukesha, Wisconsin
financially divest from Israel. Donald Trump addressed campus protests a short while ago at a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
The same day, Minouche He described last night's police raid at Columbia as "a beautiful thing to watch".
Shafik, Columbia's president, is at a Congressional hearing over antisemitism "New York was under siege last night," the former president said, with university leaders "afraid" to take action.
on campus. He said police "did an incredible job" taking back Hamilton Hall, the academic building that protesters were occupying.
18 April: Shafik calls in the police to break up the "You know, you're supposed to take care of those buildings. It took a beating. But the police came in and, in exactly two hours, everything was over."
encampment and they arrest 100 people. But the The unofficial Republican presidential nominee said he believes students have been "led astray" and that their protest action is distracting from domestic matters like the crisis at the US southern border.
protesters return and rebuild a camp.
22 April: Columbia cancels in-person classes. Jewish students raise concerns about chants and signs
supporting Hamas, while many
protesters seek to distance themselves from antisemitic incidents.
24 April: Columbia administrators tell protesters
to clear the camp by midnight. Some agree
to leave but others refuse.
29 April: Columbia suspends students who
defy a 14:00 deadline to leave, but hundreds of protesters
remain in place.
30 April: Dozens of protestors
take over the university's Hamilton Hall.
1 May: New York City Mayor Eric
Adams says approximately 300 arrests were made at Columbia University and the City
University of New York after police officers raided the campuses.
He
says that outside agitators were involved in the protests.
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