New crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests and encampments

PROTESTS. ERIN McLAUGHLIN HAS LATE DEVELOPMENTS FOR US. >> Reporter: TONIGHT, THE CRACKDOWNS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES CONTINUE. IN NEW YORK CITY, TWO MORE SCHOOLS INVITING THE NYPD TO CLEAR PRO-PALESTINIAN ENCAMPMENTS WHERE DEMONSTRATORS TURNED THEIR BACKS ON POLICE. >> WHO IS IN CHARGE? >> Reporter: MORE THAN 50 ARRESTED. TODAY POLICE POINTING TO DISTURBING LEAFLETS THEY SAY THEY FOUND DURING BOTH CRACKDOWNS. ONE OF WHICH INCLUDED VIOLENT THREATS. AND AT PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, DAMAGE WAS DONE DURING THE OCCUPATION OF ITS LIBRARY. AND TODAY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, PRESIDENT MINOUCHE SHAFIK RELEASING THIS MESSAGE. >> A GROUP OF PROTESTERS CROSSED A NEW LINE WITH THE OCCUPATION OF HAMILTON HALL. IT WAS A VIOLENT ACT THAT PUT OUR STUDENTS AT RISK AS WELL AS PUTTING THE PROTESTERS AT RISK. >> Reporter: THIS WEEK'S RAID RAISING NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT OUTSIDE INVOLVEMENT. THE UNIVERSITY REPORTS THAT OF THE 44 ARRESTED IN THE BUILDING, 13 WERE UNAFFILIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY. AMONG THEM WAS 40-YEAR-OLD JANES CARLSON, LONGTIME FIGURE IN THE ANARCHIST WORLD. HE IS ALSO BEING INVESTIGATED FOR A POSSIBLE HATE CRIME AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY SET FIRE TO AN ISRAELI FLAG AT COLUMBIA LAST MONTH. HE'S PLEADED NOT GUILTY OF CHARGES OF TRESPASSING. THIS STUDENT PROTESTER WAS NOT PART OF THE GROUP THAT OCCUPIED HAMILTON HALL. >> THE CAUSE OF THE STUDENT BODY IS CALL TO DIVESTMENT FROM BOMBS DROPPING ON OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. POLICE HAS OWN STRENGTHENED THAT. >> Reporter: FACULTY OUTRAGED OVER THE USE OF FORCE AFTER AN OFFICER ACCIDENTALLY DISCHARGED HIS FIREARM DURING THE RAID INSIDE HAMILTON HALL. >> THERE WAS NOBODY IN DANGER. THERE WAS NOBODY STRUCK AND FOR US THIS IS AN ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE. >> Reporter: MEANING WHILE ON THE WEST COAST, THE UCLA CAMPUS IS RATTLED AFTER THE INTENSE CRACKDOWN YESTERDAY. STUDENT PROTESTER BLAIR BATTLE, WAS AMONG THE MORE THAN 200 ARRESTED. >> POLICE GOT THE ORDER, THEY STARTED TO MOVE IN WITH THEIR BATONS STARTING TO PUSH AND SHOVE. AFTER TEN MINUTES OR SO OF THAT I'M KNOCKED OUT AND I CAN'T GET BACK UP. >> Reporter: AND LAST NIGHT BACK AT COLUMBIA, THE TRADITIONAL PREFINAL SCREAM WAS RELOCATED TO OUTSIDE SHAFIK'S RESIDENCE AS A FORM OF PROTEST. >> WHAT I TAKE TO BE EXISTENTIAL DEPAIR

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Length: 2min 35sec (155 seconds)

Published: Sat May 04 2024