Pro-Palestinian protests continue at Columbia University after dozens of NYPD arrests

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OF OUR SUBURBS. SEVEN DAY ACCUWEATHER FORECAST IN A FEW MINUTES. >> OKAY THANK YOU LEE. THEY SAID THEY WOULDN'T QUIT AND DOZENS OF PRO-PALESTINIAN STUDENTS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARE STILL PROTESTING. TONIGHT, EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER ANTHONY CARLO TALKING WITH ONE STUDENT WHO WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY AND IS BACK AT IT TODAY. THE TUG OF WAR AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CONTINUES FOR A THIRD NIGHT BETWEEN PROTESTERS ON AND OFF CAMPUS AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. >> THE SUBJECT OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT. >> COLUMBIA NEEDS TO DIVEST FROM ANY COMPANY THAT IT'S CURRENTLY PROFITING FROM ISRAELI APARTHEID OR THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS. THE STUDENT, ONE OF MORE THAN 100 ARRESTED THURSDAY FOR REFUSING TO LEAVE AN ENCAMPMENT ON SCHOOL GROUNDS THAT VIOLATED PROTEST POLICY SHORTLY AFTER IT WAS ALL CLEARED OUT, THEY WERE BACK FOR ANOTHER DAY. WE ARE VERY DISTURBED THAT THE UNIVERSITY HAS CHOSEN TO CALL THE POLICE ON ITS OWN. STUDENTS IN ORDER TO SUPPORT ITS, YOU KNOW, ITS BOTTOM LINE INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL WISHES OF THE COMMUNITY. >> FREE PALESTINE OUTSIDE THE IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL'S GATES FRIDAY, PROTESTERS CHANTED INTO THE NIGHT, FLANKED BY POLICE IN RIOT GEAR. COLUMBIA'S PRESIDENT, DOCTOR MINOUCHE SHAFIK, TOLD POLICE THURSDAY THE ENCAMPMENT ON SCHOOL GROUNDS SEVERELY DISRUPTS CAMPUS LIFE AND CREATES A HARASSING AND INTIMIDATING ENVIRONMENT FOR MANY STUDENTS. STUDENTS STILL DEALING WITH THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF A WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, US JEWISH STUDENTS WE ALL JUST WANT PEACE AND WE ALL JUST WANT WE WANT THE HOSTAGES BACK SAFE. >> WE WANT PEOPLE IN GAZA TO STOP DYING. AND THEN AND THEY JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. THAT'S HOW MOST OF US FEEL. I'M JUST REALLY SHOCKED THAT THIS IS WHAT THINGS HAVE COME TO, AND THAT THERE'S SO MUCH ANGER AND HATRED AND I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE IT'S COMING FROM. IS IT SOCIAL MEDIA OR IS IT IN THE END OF THE DAY, JUST ANTI-SEMITISM? >> NOW, COLUMBIA ACKNOWLEDGES THERE HAVE BEEN PROTESTS ON CAMPUS SINCE THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST BEGAN IN OCTOBER. BUT THERE ARE RULES REGARDING TIME, PLACE AND MANNER. THE UNIVERSITY WILL CONTINUE TO ENFORCE IN MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS.
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Channel: Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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Length: 2min 21sec (141 seconds)
Published: Sat Apr 20 2024
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