[ April 26, 2026 ]
NYPD clash with Columbia protesters, making dozens of arrests and clearing the entire encampment in 2 hours.
Hundreds of officers in riot gear swiftly removed all of the students and protesters who had been encamped on the campus for 2 weeks.
Over 100 arrests. pic.twitter.com/FnXXbAgkoy
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 1, 2024
Columbia University created this situation and allowed this to happen. They should be forced to pay the NYPD every penny this operation will end up costing.
And …. This incompetence jackass and Columbia Univ. Pres., Nemat Shafik needs to be fired, IMMEDIATELY. pic.twitter.com/phOLuRk7FV
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 1, 2024
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Daily Mail: Dozens of cops poured into Hamilton Hall via a window using a ramp attached to a huge armored truck. Video showed the police hammering at locked doors before sweeping in with riot shields.
Footage showed protesters being dragged out of the campus, some carried by several officers if they refused to walk, and loaded on to buses.
Just after 10pm, the campus was cleared out and locked down by police with many protesters heading north to City College of New York, where police were also raiding a similar encampment.
An encampment first sprung up at Columbia on April 17 after Shafik was hauled before Congress to address anti-Semitism on campus.
Around 9pm on Tuesday, officers stormed the university as the crowd chanted and yelled at them, some confronted the officers and pushed barricades to try and block their path.
ADVERTISEMENTA shelter in place warning was issued to students on Morningside campus in the moments before officers descended.
In a statement, the university said the decision to call in police was, ‘made to restore safety and order to our community’.
‘We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions,’ the statement read.
Donald Trump praised officer’s response to the situation, but said it should have come ‘a lot sooner.’
Today's cover: Dozens arrested as NYPD cops dramatically storm Columbia campus to clear out anti-Israel mob https://t.co/82FlNxSFKj pic.twitter.com/oHl0lQlmE7
— New York Post (@nypost) May 1, 2024
Taking out the trash from Hamilton Hall, Columbia University
NYPD arrested about 100 people
The University says that many of them are NOT STUDENTS pic.twitter.com/Mvu21ZdquC— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) May 1, 2024
Dozens arrested as NYPD cops dramatically storm Columbia campus to clear out anti-Israel mob
By: NY Post, April 30, 2024:ADVERTISEMENTNYPD cops stormed onto Columbia University’s campus Tuesday night to oust a pro-terror mob that illegally took over an academic building and to clear out an anti-Israel encampment after the school finally gave them the green light.
Hundreds of officers swooped through the gates of the Morningside Heights school shortly after 9 p.m. and set their sights on historic Hamilton Hall, the building that was taken over by rogue rioters in a drastic escalation of the protests that have plagued the campus for weeks.
But when dozens of Emergency Service Unit officers got to the building, they were blocked from entering the front doors which had been barricaded by the unruly mob.
Several protesters appeared unbothered as they stood in the doorway with only a glass pane between them and the officers — as their comrades on the streets shouted “Pigs!”
NYPD raises American flag on City College campus, tosses Palestinian flag away in iconic moment after busting pro-terror protesters
The NYPD then brought in its Mobile Adjustable Ramp System vehicle and scores of riot-gear clad cops carrying zip-tie handcuffs entered Hamilton Hall through the second-floor window in a dramatic scene.
According to officials, cops used four distraction devices — described by Assistant Commissioner Carlos Nieves as a “very loud bang to distract people” — to infiltrate the academic building.
Within about an hour, the academic building was cleared out and dozens of the occupiers were arrested, according to police sources.
The protesters — many of whom covered their faces with surgical masks or keffiyehs — were walked out of Hamilton Hall and loaded onto three NYPD buses.
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