NYPD arrests dozens of Columbia University protesters after clearing occupied building

Hundreds of New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have entered the campus of Columbia University, taking multiple protesters into custody, in the latest escalation in the Gaza protests that have swept college campuses, mostly in the United States.
NYPD officers used flash-bang grenades to breach Columbia's Hamilton Hall, which protesters had barricaded themselves inside Tuesday.
Live television images showed officers entering the university in upper Manhattan, which has been the focal point of student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, in which more than 34,535 Palestinians have been killed.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo and Kristen Saloomey join us live outside Columbia University in New York to discuss the latest updates.

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[abdullahihassan]

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

[azizmustapha]

congratulations america, ur capital has been moved to tel aviv

[DeannThomas-leut]

Endowments, tuition fees, research grants, alumni donations and other revenue streams contribute towards financial stability and support their educational aims. As of the 2021/22 academic year, Ivy League institutions generated $40.61 billion in total revenue.

The federal government provides enormous subsidies to the wealthiest universities by paying “overhead” on research grants. Ivy League universities received $1.8 billion for government-funded research grants despite having $192 billion in endowment funds.

- something for those naysays to consider. With the MONEY the universities make why is any student in America paying tuition? These universities make enough money a year to pay for your education, your kids education, and your grandchildren’s education. However, they instead give it to countries like Israel who turn around and give it to the U.S. government to buy weapons.

[Bluekid]

Here in the us they are straight up calling these kids terrorist. We should be ashamed of ourselves.

[aezuddin]

This is what you called democracy USA?

[saveriomadia]

Blinken should make a speech that the police’s offer is extraordinarily generous!

[ChrisAlbertH]

Imagine being willingly turned into a gestapo for a foreign country. Pathetic

[Hippowdon]

And who will prosecute the police for commiting these crimes?

[msheraq]

Ah! freedom of Speech
Ah! Human Rights,
Ah! Democracy .

[AbdulKader-mbdl]

Ultra modern extra civilised democracy.

[imagesmore]

Your "democracy" sucks big time Armourica.

[KhadijahMohammed-vssd]

As an Egyptian college student i'm tremendously frustrated about our inaction 😓

[Rnankn]

Isn’t the school there for the students? Who uses a swat team to make students leave their school? Nice lesson in how authoritarianism works.

[Indlovu]

The US is acting like a totalitarian state. What happened to the land of the free? All that talk about democracy and freedom and they cannot take criticism for their role in the genocide carried out by Israel. 🇵🇸

[exploringjordanwithjules]

History in the making.
The leaders of the future.
Thank you

[anilkorgaonkar]

Everywhere dectator, he might be a democratic-dictator or communist- dictator or a princly-dictator.
The moral of human beings in the world is diminishing.
Democracy, human rights, and equality are the arnamantal words.

[eddieokpara]

How's it that Americans can protest against policies of their leaders but never against that of Isreal. Who owns the U.S.

[syourke]

History doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. - Mark Twain

[adamson]

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
-Thomas Jefferson

[yeehawanarchist]

College: "We will not risk escalation!"

Also college: *immediately escalates with armed farm animals*