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Video taken from New York City constabulary officers' body-worn cameras shows authorities forcing their measurement wrong a Columbia University building this week that had been overtaken by anti-Israel protesters.
The video shows nan infinitesimal NYPD officers wearing protective cogwheel breached Hamilton Hall connected Tuesday nighttime wherever nan protesters had barricaded themselves inside.
"We shall not beryllium moved," protesters extracurricular nan building are heard singing arsenic officers move toward nan building.
Many of nan protesters were not students astatine nan university, but extracurricular agitators, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Tarik Sheppard told "Your World Cavuto" connected Thursday.
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NYPD officers approached Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University connected Tuesday nighttime to breach nan building, which had been overtaken by anti-Israel protesters. (NYPD)
"They are professionals," he said."They whitethorn conscionable alert successful for a time aliases 2 and leave. You'll spot them walking astir nan country, and they person funding."
"The students are already passionate and upset astir an issue, and now you person a personification whispering successful your receptor 'Hey, you know, we should return complete nan building' aliases thing for illustration that," Sheppard added. "When young minds that are successful that state, it's beautiful easy to past beryllium influenced by personification who is simply a master astatine manipulation."
The bodycam footage shows nan officers utilizing a instrumentality to unfastened a beforehand doorway astatine Hamilton Hall, which had aggregate chairs stacked against it from nan inside.
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Once inside, nan officers encountered a man-made obstruction of what appeared to beryllium furnishings that required a saw to trim through. Protesters are heard from nan extracurricular chanting "Free, free Palestine!"
At 1 point, an serviceman says "Let's deploy a flashbang (grenade)," which was followed by a bid of large bangs. After cutting done nan barrier, officers came into interaction pinch protesters sitting wrong a room wherever they were detained.
Authorities were only allowed to move protesters from nan field aft nan assemblage officially requested help, Sheppard said, adding that respective universities successful nan metropolis person asked nan NYPD to person a beingness connected their field astatine slightest done nan mediate of May.
Anti-Israel protesters wrong Hamilton Hall. (NYPD)
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"Many of them are requesting that. What we've asked is that they travel up pinch a scheme to self-sustain. However, we will not time off them and we don't want nan campuses to return to nan authorities that it was in," he said.
