Columbia University asked New York Police Department to help Snow Palestine activists after dozens of protesters occupies the main field of the main library in Wednesday.
Claire Shipman, the University’s acting, said in a statement, the protesters that refused to leave a building despite reminds that failure to comply with disciplinary action and perhaps hold to obey.
“Due to the number of individuals participating in the disruption inside and outside of the building, a large group of people attesting to force their way into the butler Library Creating a Safety Hazard, and what we believe to be the significant presence of individuals not affiliated with the University, Columbia has taken the necessary step of requesting the presence of NYPD to assist in Securing the building and the safety of our community, “Shipman said in the statement.
“Sadly, during the course of this disruption, two of our Columbia Public safety leaders to support injuries in the crowd removed with each effort to force the way into the building and in the room 301. These actions are in the room.
In an interview with Local NBC affiliate On Wednesday evening, the New York Eric Adams said police department was “on the way” in the field.
“We are in battle with your college. I asked for our help and Nypd in the way,” Adams said, calling the protest “unreasonable.”
At 6pm is the students received anlert saying that the library was closed and the area “is cleaned.”
The New York Pilot MarcusA democracy, he said she was briefed in the site and was “grateful to the public safety officials to keeping students safe.”
I have been briefed in the site at Columbia University Tonight and I am grateful to the public health officials to keeping students safe.
Everyone has the right to peaceably. But violence, vandalism or destruction of property absolutely unacceptable.
– Kathy Howachul (@govkathyhochul) May 7, 2025
“Everyone has a right peacefully. But violence, vandalism and destruction of property are completely unreasonable,” said in a statement.
Commons participated in the Social Media by Campus Protest Motion Columbia University frontyterid (Cuad) shows the masked protesters, many wearing the keffiyh, a black and white flooding in the flooding of flooding in flooding in flood in flooding in flood in Flooding in the flooding in flooding and flooding in the flood of flooding in the flooding flooding in flood in the flood inundation in the flood in the flood in the flood in the flood of Palestinians and inundation.
Some stood in the bullhorns with others, when the sign is read “the strike in the” lack of Israel’s disturbance to the activists of Israel out of Israel out of trouble. And also to be held “free Mahmoud Khalil‘Flag with a photograph of the recent Columbia Graduate and Palestine activism who held in the ice custody with his hold on March.
In a statement of the Mass in 10, protesters confirmed that he did not want to show their ids and that some of the wrongs in the battle with public safety leaders.
“It will be useless intellectual” protesters in a statement. “Palestine is our surrounding and stand strong in the face of violence oppression.”
And Standoff comes to the fragile moment to university to face a crackdown by the trump management on his response to the student protests against the war in Gaza last source. The administration has been accused of university failing to protect the Jews of the students from antisemitism in the field of canceled $ 400m in the Federal research funding from the game.
Tuesday, the University announced by of layoffs as a result of cuts. University of Minister said they are working with Trump management in hope of getting funding restored.
Last really, protesters set up the camp and arrested Hamilton Hall, a campus building that led to dozens of stops and inspired similar demonstrations to the university in the country.
Later, the universe has a series of the leadership changes. In the interim President Columbia stepped with the Agreement nearly all Trump Administration’s sweeping – a decision that sacrifices freedom and critics, who said universities sacrificed his freedom and academic freedom.