The day after Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik testified about antisemitism on campus before a House congressional committee, New York City Police Department officers descended on university grounds and arrested more than 108 peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters. It was a huge escalation in the university's ongoing crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters.
officers arrested more than 108 protesters and gave them summonses for trespassing. Chief of Patrol John Chell characterized the protesters as peaceful, telling The Columbia Spectator that the students did not resist arrest and they “were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.” Those who participated in the encampment have been suspended, Shafik said in a letter to the
. Three students from nearby Barnard University who joined the protest — including Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who had grilled Shafik on Columbia's treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters the day before — were also suspended. All those arrested were released from police custody as of Thursday night.
on protesters “ut of an abundance of concern for the safety of Columbia’s campus.” “This is a challenging moment and these are steps that I deeply regret having to take,” she said. But the irony of her sending in armed police officers to remove peaceful protesters while emphasizing campus safety was apparently lost on Shafik.
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