Columbia University protests: Law enforcement source IDs six protesters tied to NYPD operations on campus

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Six of the more than 300 individuals arrested at Columbia University and City College during the NYPD's operations Tuesday night to break up encampments at

to break up encampments at both locations have been identified by a law enforcement source as either “non-students, or students tied to outside influencers.”as the NYPD and Mayor Eric Adams defend their assertions that “outside agitators” played a role in the pro-Palestine protests

Carlson, according to the law enforcement sources, is a “long-time figure in the anarchist world,” and was previously arrested in 2005 during violent protests coinciding with the G8 summit in San Francisco. Sources also said he was previously involved in recent bridge- and tunnel-blocking episodes involving pro-Palestine groups.

Rudy Ralph Martinez was charged with third-degree burglary during the City College incident. Martinez has numerous protest-related arrests dating back to California in 2012. Nora Fayad was charged with third-degree burglary during the City College incident. She was identified as the individual who declared in a viral video “The NYPD, Mayor Adams and Columbia University have insisted that outside agitators played a role in stirring up the demonstrations there.

“There are people that we have been watching and organizations that are not part of the campus,” Adams said. “We are not going to release any information that is too sensitive.”Protesters in Columbia University on the ground, with their hands up, as police move in to break up the Hamilton Hall siege on April 30, 2024.new bodycam footage

 

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