The mayor blamed 'outside agitators' for 'training and co-opting' an otherwise peaceful protest to turn it into something potentially violent.
ByThe pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion, with police carrying riot shields bursting into a building that protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of arrests.Nearly 300 people were arrested at Columbia University and The City College of New York Tuesday night, Mayor Eric Adams said.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, Rebecca Weiner, said individuals associated with a change to more aggressive tactics were spotted at Columbia and represented an "elevated concern." NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry talks with the Mornings @ 10 team about the protests.
"Students have a right to demonstrate peacefully and exercise their First Amendment rights," CUNY said in a statement. "Tonight's actions were taken in response to specific and repeated acts of violence and vandalism, not in response to peaceful protest. CUNY will continue working to keep our community free from violence, intimidation and harassment."
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