Columbia
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told THE CITY that their police accountability unit is reviewing the shooting that happened as police cleared out campus protesters.
Tuesday night's campus crackdown happened exactly 56 years after police were called to arrest Columbia students protesting the Vietnam War.
The Biden White House has pursued a “cold shoulder strategy for its own base and all Americans who want to see an end to this war,” the group said.
On April 30, 1968, police flooded onto Columbia University's campus to end a demonstration students had staged — a scene that was eerily repeated 56 years later.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The former president criticized pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University for causing “tremendous damage.”
The White House condemned the New York campus escalation as protestors entered Hamilton Hall, the scene of civil rights and Vietnam demonstrations in 1968.
Tent encampments of protesters have spread across campuses nationwide in a student movement unlike any other this century.
Student activists defied a 2 p.m. deadline to leave an encampment of around 120 tents on the school’s Manhattan campus
The open letter Monday represented one of the largest shows of support among progressive groups for the burgeoning student protests.
The university said it won’t divest from Israel and that it has failed to come to an agreement with students protesting the war in Gaza.