Dozens of protesters arrested as NYPD storm Columbia campus to crush pro-Gaza protest
A pro-Palestine occupation of part of New York’s Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion as riot police stormed the campus and made hundreds of arrests.
The protests have been going on for weeks, sparking similar demonstrations at some 50 campuses across the United States.
Police entered an upper storey of Hamilton Hall – renamed Hind Hall by protesters in memory of a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza – during late evening on Tuesday.
Authorities at Columbia said they had , saying Hamilton Hall “had
