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NY Post
New York Post
18 Apr 2024


NextImg:At least 4 anti-Israel protesters, including 1 minor, arrested on Columbia University campus

At least four people – including one minor – was taken into custody Thursday morning near the ongoing tent protest on Columbia University’s Morningside campus, authorities told The Post.

As of 9 a.m., it was unclear if the individuals were charged or issued summonses.

“Why are you doing this to me, I’m just standing on the sidewalk?” one person standing outside the campus gates at 116th Street and Broadway can be heard yelling at officers in a dramatic video shared by Status Coup News on X.

Multiple people wearing Palestinian keffiyehs were seen being grabbed by NYPD officers who appeared to be holding zip ties or other restraints, the footage showed.

“The cops were aggressive. I don’t know why. It took 20 cops to arrest four people,” one protester told The Post.

The protestors looked like they were behind a barricade on the sidewalk when the cops descended, witnesses said.

One woman claimed that she asked an officer why the group was being arrested and they replied “I don’t even know.”

Columbia University campus overviewed on Thursday morning April 18, 2024.
Columbia University campus overviewed on Thursday morning April 18, 2024. Robert Miller

Another video showed what looked like at least one person being loaded onto an NYPD Department of Corrections van outside the main gates.

The Columbia demonstration sprung up in the early hours of Wednesday, with hundreds of students protesting around almost 60 tents on the lawn outside Butler Library.

The protesters waved signs and chanted to demand that university officials divest from Israel in light of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

Columbia University students protesting in the Quad overnight.
Columbia University students protesting in the Quad overnight. @ColumbiaSJP

The showing was undeterred by the overnight rainstorm.

“They slept there.  In spite of the rain they stayed there overnight.  I think they are now occupying a different field  as well,” a protester told The Post.

“There are two fields now because there’s a lot and they wanted to protect the ones that were originally there so they have started sleeping in other parts of the campus as well,” they explained.

People from around the university neighborhood were donating food to the protesters inside the tents, who periodically emerged onto the lawn.