NYPD Arrests 108 at Pro-Palestine Rally Protest at Columbia (1)

More than a hundred students were arrested for trespassing at Columbia University after the Ivy League school called the New York Police Department to dismantle tents and disperse a pro-Palestinian protest on campus Thursday.

The incident occurred a day after Columbia President Nemat Shafik’s congressional testimony over antisemitism on college campuses. In a letter to the university community, Shafik expressed regret for authorizing police intervention but said she had no choice after “all of these attempts to resolve the situation were rejected by the students involved.”

NYPD officers detain a person outside Columbia University in New York on April 18.

Photographer: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images

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