New York police raid Columbia campus and arrest protesters | BBC News

New York City police have entered the Columbia University en masse and are arresting students.

The NYPD told the BBC officers have entered Hamilton Hall, an academic building recently occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

The activists had taken over the Hamilton Hall building nearly 24 hours earlier amid two weeks of campus protests over the Israel-Gaza war.

The police were authorised to go in by university authorities, after student demonstrators defied a deadline to disperse.

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[Jah_Nzola]

Free America from certain lobbyist groups

[Webaus]

The older I get, the less I understand this horrible world we live in

[jeremiasrobinson]

How does history tend to remember mass student protest that are met with police crack-downs?

[mothiurNCL]

AIPAC has paid the politicians very well.

[greggbisgrove]

Nice one Beeb you have managed to do this report without using the words PALESTINE and GAZA.

[paulprice]

"Mostly peaceful protesters" - let's face it, that's the only acceptable* BBC position on these matters these days.

*acceptable to the media class dinner party set

[TI_Ted]

is the bbc banned from saying the “g” word ?

[diddydum]

Remember 'occupation is wrong'

[Nautilus]

To see who you are ruled by …. Look to those whom you cannot talk about.

[timkiwi]

They should study the history of isreal.

[Jah_Nzola]

That Aipac power and influence runs deep in this country

[ianogden]

They do it because they can and the average age of someone described as a child is now 23.

[jamm]

The only content about UK students protesting, that I can find on the BBC page, is from 3 years ago about covid.

Why are you not providing news? Have you been told to not display it in case others join in?

[lits]

This is how I imagine students were like during the Vietnam War.

[x.s.bleeding]

What a joke. Imagine if this wasn't peaceful. 😮

[medikoppa]

Anybody remember USA lecturing other countries on human rights when other governments crack down on such protests?

[lits]

Why not set up spaces for proper debates regarding the topic. Allow students to express themselves but in an academic organized way. Let this be a teaching moment instead of aggressive action from outsiders. It’s very sad to see this. Everyone loses.

[shamrock]

Similar thing happened during the Vietnam war and the Iraq war, and the government always maintains a "you're with us or against us" doctrine, the warmongers at the top want their tax funded contracts

[marketmalc]

They need teaching a lesson. They will not make not one jot of difference to how the gov acts or what happens in Gaza.

[wrdcuck]

AMERICA IS NOT DEMOCRACY COUNTRY 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂