USA: NYPD enters Columbia University

Live television footage tonight showed how agents – an unspecified number – were arriving at the place from a trailer type attached to one of the windows of the property.

Earlier, students stormed and occupied a building on the university's main campus waving the Palestinian flag, and there were even reports that they renamed Hamilton Hall Hind in honor of a five-year-old girl who died in Gaza under Israeli fire.

The protests intensified after the establishment authorities announced that they would begin arresting those who violate the order to leave the pro-Palestinian camp.

The suspension process has already begun, but the number of students to whom the measure has been applied is not yet known.

After the NYPD entered Colombia, they blamed the protest participants for the situation.

“We regret that protesters chose to exacerbate the situation with their actions. After the university learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized, and locked down, we were left with no choice,” a statement warned. Police entered the campus shortly after 9:00 p.m. local time. .

The students who occupied the building face possible expulsion, according to a school spokesman.

Camps at the University of Connecticut, Yale, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were evacuated this morning. CNN noted that about fourteen campus camps still exist across the country.

The pro-Palestinian protests began at Columbia University on April 17, and from the gathering of a few young people, the flame has spread to centers of higher education in more than 30 states in the country.

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