Placing prison buses on Columbia University campus
The New York police ended the occupation of one of the university's buildings by protesters to the Gaza war by deploying prison buses on the campus of Columbia University and flying reconnaissance drones. |
According to the international group Tasnim News Agency
, the New York police stationed prison buses on the campus of Columbia University and flew a drone that showed videos and photos of protesting students on their mobile phones, to capture one of the buildings of this university by protestors of the Gaza war. ended.
According to this report, the occupation of one of the buildings of Columbia University by pro-Palestinian protesters is while the police drones are flying over the sky. The university flew in and identified the protesting students and broadcast their pictures on their mobile phones. The university lined up and prepared the prison buses to arrest and transport the protesting students to the prison. They invited the protesting students, who have been setting up their protest tents on the university campus for more than two weeks, to a meeting. While their previous meeting had ended without results.
At the same time, the police arrested dozens of people, including 30 students and 6 graduates and two He arrested the university employee on charges of illegal entry and collected the protesters’ tents in this building.
According to this report, minutes before this collection Tents, university authorities blocked the main area of this dormitory and restricted any access to it for students, security staff and other university employees. The police then gave the protesting students 10 minutes to decide to end the protest and vacate their tents, but they refused. The students also received a message on their mobile phones that said: Disobeying this order may lead to disciplinary action.
Finally, within a few minutes, the police evacuated everyone outside the Hamilton dormitory and ordered the students living in the dormitory to go to the dormitory before the doors were closed. University security staff ordered that anyone who is not a dormitory resident stay in the lobby. Dozens of people did this.
about 6 days ago Pro-Palestinian protesting students at Columbia University occupied the Hamilton dormitory building in this university.
The CNN news network reported by publishing video images that the protesters who occupied the Hamilton dormitory placed banners from the windows of the building that read “Intifada”.
The same morning Columbia University officials announced the suspension of pro-Palestinian protesting students who had their protest camps on campus. don’t leave, they will start.
Meanwhile, John Kirby, the coordinator of strategic affairs of the National Security Council of the White House, in response to the occupation of the building Columbia University in New York by students announced that the President of the United States believes that the action of Columbia University students to occupy the building is definitely a wrong approach.
U.S. President Joe Biden also announced his support for the Israeli regime and said that despite the protests And the recent opposition in American universities to the war in Gaza, he will not revise his policies towards the region.
The American president said that in none of the American university campuses are no place for violent and anti-Semitic discourse. Anti-war protests against Gaza have not forced him to reconsider his policies towards the region.
He also said: peaceful demonstrations are legal but Violence is not legal. Students have the right to freedom of speech, but they must obey the rule of law. The National Guard should not interfere with student demonstrations on campuses..
Also, according to the American media, demonstrations in The campus of the University of California about the war in Gaza turned into a clash between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of supporters of Israel.
Meanwhile, American media reported that Since the beginning of the student movement in support of Palestine, American police forces have detained more than 1000 students protesting the crimes of the Israeli regime in Gaza in 25 universities of this country in 21 states. color:white”>.
also According to media reports, the police gathered the tents of pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Virginia and arrested at least 25 people. They announced that the protesters violated many policies of the university, including setting up tents and using loudspeakers and other devices to produce loud sounds.
In addition, the Chicago Police Department also announced Kurds About 50 pro-Palestinian protesters were detained in front of the Art Institute of Chicago on charges of illegal entry.
Los Angeles Police Department in a statement on the network Social X said: Due to numerous violent actions among the protesters on the university campus, police officers responded to the request of the UCLA University officials and entered the university to restore order and public safety.
American police also to remove protesting students The Gaza war at the University of Texas resorted to pepper spray from the campus.
The wave of protests in support of Palestine on American university campuses After the arrest of hundreds of protesters at Columbia University, it has become more widespread and after spreading to most universities in this country, it is spreading to universities in other countries around the world.
Protests from Columbia University in New York from April 17 started and the protesting students demanded the termination of the relationship of this university with the Israeli institutions that are involved in the Gaza war. Protesters in other universities have similar demands.
© | Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Tasnim News Agency |