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ARRESTS OF ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR PROTESTERS EXCEED 2,300 AS POLICE CLEAR MORE US
CAMPUS ENCAMPMENTS

Arrests have been made during at least 58 crackdowns on protesters at 44
colleges or universities since April 18

President Joe Biden has defended the students' right to protest peacefully but
decried the violence(Pic: EdexLive Desk)
EdexLive Desk


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04 May 2024, 10:32 am
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Police ordered pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon a tent encampment at New
York University (NYU) in the United States (USA) early Friday, May 3, following
weeks of demonstrations and police crackdowns at college campuses nationwide
that have resulted in more than 2,300 arrests.

About a dozen protesters who refused police orders to leave were arrested and
about 30 more left voluntarily, according to NYU spokesperson John Beckman.

The school asked the New York Police Department (NYPD) to intervene "to minimise
the likelihood of injury" and disruption, Beckman said.

Classes will proceed as scheduled on Friday, May 3, he said.

A larger NYU encampment was dismantled on April 22, when more than 130
protesters were arrested.

A movement unlike any other this century

Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business
with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread across US
campuses in a student movement unlike any other this century.

Israel has branded the protests antisemitic, while Israel's critics say it uses
those allegations to silence opposition.

Although some protesters have been caught on camera making antisemitic remarks
or violent threats, protest organisers"some of whom are Jewish — call it a
peaceful movement to defend Palestinian rights and protest the war.

President Joe Biden says...

President Joe Biden has defended the students' right to protest peacefully but
decried the violence and disruption of campus life.

NYPD officers on Friday, May 3, also cleared an encampment at The New School in
Greenwich Village, where students were not able to attend classes in at least
two buildings because of the protesters.

Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry posted on the social platform X
that the school asked the department to disperse the protesters.

Video posted by Daughtry shows dozens of helmeted officers massed outside the
school.

No arrests were announced.

State University of New York and University of Tennessee

Authorities said a further 133 protesters were arrested when police broke up a
pro-Palestinian encampment at the State University of New York at New Paltz
starting late Thursday, while nine protesters were also arrested at the
University of Tennessee, stated a report by PTI.

Chancellor Donde Plowman said Friday, May 3, that seven of those arrested are
students who will also be sanctioned under the school's code of conduct.

The student protest movement began April 17 at Columbia University, where
student protesters built an encampment to call for an end to the Israel-Hamas
war.

The situation of the war

More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict in the Gaza
Strip, according to the Health Ministry there.

Israel launched its offensive in Gaza after October 7, when Hamas militants
killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages in an
attack on southern Israel.

Columbia University

More than 100 people were arrested late Tuesday, April 30, when police broke up
the Columbia encampment.

One officer accidentally discharged his gun inside Hamilton Hall during that
operation, but no one was injured, NYPD said late Thursday, May 2.

He was trying to use the flashlight attached to his gun but instead fired a
single round that struck a frame on the wall, police said.

University of California, Los Angeles

At University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), more than 200 people were taken
into custody early Thursday, May 2, after hundreds of protesters defied orders
to leave, a few forming human chains as police fired flash-bangs to break up the
crowds.

Police tore apart a fortified encampment's barricade of plywood, pallets, metal
fences and dumpsters, then pulled down canopies and tents.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block told alumni on a call Thursday afternoon, May 2, that
administrators tried to find a peaceful solution and that things had been stable
on campus until counter-demonstrators attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment
late Tuesday, April 30.

Campus administrators and police did not intervene or call for backup for hours.

No one was arrested that night, but at least 15 protesters were injured.

By Wednesday, May 1, the encampment had become "much more of a bunker" and there
was no other solution but to have police dismantle it, Block said.

Officers warned over loudspeakers that there would be arrests if the crowd did
not disperse.

Hundreds left voluntarily, while another 200-plus remained and were arrested.

Arrests have been made during at least 58 crackdowns on protesters at 44
colleges or universities since April 18, according to figures based on
Associated Press reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement
agencies.

University of Minnesota officials reached an agreement with protesters not to
disrupt commencements, and similar compromises have been made at Northwestern
University in suburban Chicago, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Brown
University in Rhode Island.


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