BREAKING: NYPD mobilizing near Columbia University as effort to end protesters' siege appears imminent

Decked in riot gear and apparently carrying zipties for arrests, the phalanx of officers were seemingly approaching the main entrance to Columbia at West 114th Street and Broadway at about nightfall, according to multiple sources on X . Police had been on patrol outside Columbia all day, but had not entered the campus.reported that the school’s Emergency Management and Operations Team had issued an alert to students at about 8:18 p.m.

The situation occurs nearly 24 hours after pro-Palestine protesters on Columbia’s campus stormed Hamilton Hall, violently smashing their way into the facility and barricading themselves inside. It was a dramatic escalation of the nearly two-week-long demonstration that began with an encampment on Columbia’s South Lawn in support of Gaza.

Pro-Palestinian student protestors continue their protest at Columbia University Tuesday, April 30, 2024 after occupied Hamilton Hall overnight in Manhattan, New York. On Monday, Columbia University ordered all remaining encampment participants to vacate by 2 p.m., or face suspension. Still, many participants refused — and after midnight Tuesday, about 60 to 100 of them stormed Hamilton Hall.which seized Hamilton Hall said Tuesday “this escalation represents the next generation of the 1968, 1985 and 1992 student movements which Columbia once repressed but celebrate’s today.

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