A Friday Pomona College campus protest led to 19 students being arrested, with some students saying police reaction was heavy-handed and surprising to them. A pro-Palestinian group of students gathered at the college Friday for a sit-down protest, but things ramped up when the protestors moved to occupy the college president's office.
The group that organized the protest, Pomona Divest Apartheid, said in a post on Instagram that they entered the campus' Alexander Hall to protest the 'forceful removal of their apartheid wall' which had artwork from students supporting Palestine. The 32-foot-long paneled wall had been up since March 28.In an April 5 letter addressed to the Pomona College community, college president Gabrielle Starr said for the past week, 'masked individuals who are part of a protest have occupied a portion of the Smith Campus Center (SCC) lawn,' Starr wrot
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