College tensions take hostile turn as expulsions threatened over protests

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator breaks a window at Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York on Tuesday in order to secure a set of doors with a chain, as protesters barricaded themselves inside the building.

A dramatic scene erupted at Columbia University in New York shortly after 9 p.m., when a massive police presence gathered outside the gates began moving onto the campus. The New York City officers cleared the area around Hamilton Hall, where dozens of students had barricaded themselves inside the classroom building shortly after midnight, and began sledgehammering their way in to pull protesters out.

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