The New York Police Department (NYPD) reportedly began a raid on Columbia University hours after the university restricted access to its campus.
Video footage posted to X showed NYPD officers in riot gear walking through the streets as protesters could be heard chanting, “Free, free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.”
#BREAKING Police MOVE IN TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Raid has begun. pic.twitter.com/SCWZOPDuw5
— Oliya Scootercaster (@ScooterCasterNY) May 1, 2024
Columbia University informed students to “shelter in place” hours after the university had restricted access to its campus in the aftermath of anti-Israel protesters seizing control of Hamilton Hall, an academic building, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Columbia University students have been ordered to “shelter in place” as a large group of police officers is…
