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108 protesters arrested, 4 police officers injured as pro-Palestinian encampment cleared at Boston's Emerson College

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The encampment is one of several set up by students at colleges nationwide to show solidarity with the pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested at Columbia University in New York earlier this week.

More than 100 people were arrested and four police officers were injured early Thursday when protesters clashed with Boston police as a pro-Palestinian encampment at Emerson College was cleared. An Emerson student said an announcement was made at 1 a.m. that the encampment, which is off Boylston Street, saying anyone in the alley would be arrested.Boston police officers walked out of the Massachusetts Transportation Building at 2 a.m. and made their way through the crowd in the alley.

Of the four police officers injured, one suffered serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.Boylston Place Alley is not solely owned by Emerson College and it is a fire alley with a public right of way requirement to access non-Emerson buildings, including the State Transportation Center.Just outside the alley, several police vans were parked to take away protesters, and crime scene tape was placed to cordon off the area.

 

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