NYPD addresses how it will handle safety concerns amid protests on Columbia’s campus

Columbia University is holding all classes virtually as pro-Palestinian protesters continue to occupy on the Ivy League school’s campus. NBC News’ Rehema Ellis reports on how the NYPD is focusing its presence while still considering First Amendment rights.

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[kevinjenner]

In 1970, news of Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia and the killings at Kent State triggered the May 1970 student strikes, the largest student protest in U.S. history, involving more than 900 Colleges, Universities, and High Schools.

[khon]

every accusation is confession, when fascism comes to america, it will be wrapped in a flag w/ a crescent & a star

[Lamin_G]

The same entities crying about the peaceful young protesters today were the same ones who slammed the civil rights movements of the 1960s and the anti-war protests against U.S. aggression in Vietnam. It's like Groundhog Day. Back then, police *shot* at students on campus! Are these the people that "protect and serve, " or do they think it is the other way around?

They are likely the same parties who blasted Martin Luther King for his anti-war stance when he said as follows:

_“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to _*_the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.”_* - Martin Luther King, "Beyond Vietnam."

[julianvega]

Columbia should send everyone home and implement covid procedures of online education m

[oprrrah]

I hope they can keep it up until the Genocide is stopped.

[Rick-qfde]

I guess they haven't seen the Kent State reenactment yet.... 😮.

[wendypagonis]

Columbia is not compulsory education. Students are free to transfer to other schools that align with their opinions.

Suggest students who are protesting disruptively spend their time preparing for final exams and then leave. Other students can speak their mind without crippling the school functions.

[WalkiTalki]

I agree, bring in the National Guard and let them take an additional year in order to graduate.

[jh]

Media... One does not need to support this activity by providing a lot of free air time, right?

[sophiearshi]

can't these students can go to Gaza and help there ? it will be more helpful than blocking the campus.

[stevemarler]

It's actions like this that stopped the Vietnam boondoggle 😮

[jh]

You are isolating the wrong group...

Sopporters of terror (Hamas) or jewish students that highly value and focused on their education...