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Officers from nan New York Police Department went to two different universities connected Friday greeting to clear retired anti-Israel agitators and break up demonstrations they held connected campus.
Officers first cleared an encampment astatine New York University, wherever they arrested respective protesters and called cleaning crews to nan area to region tents and expanse distant nan trash near down by nan protesters. The NYPD was past called to return akin actions astatine The New School successful New York. After nan operations, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said to reporters to corroborate nan NYPD took nan actions "at nan petition of schoolhouse presidents" and yet arrested 56 people, pinch nary incidents, betwixt some schools.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry besides said to reporters, saying location is "somebody" aliases "some organization" down nan monolithic activity wherever students and different protesters are taking complete schools and world buildings, chanting antisemitic slogans, resisting rule enforcement and administrators’ orders to disperse, and getting distant pinch little to nary consequences.
"I conscionable want to say, and I said it before, there's personification down this movement," Daughtry said. "There is immoderate statement down this movement. The level of statement that we're seeing successful some of these schools and astatine Columbia."
POLICE ARREST THOUSANDS AT COLLEGES ACROSS THE US TO CLEAR ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS, ENCAMPMENTS
Police apprehension protesters during anti-Israel demonstrations astatine different universities and colleges successful New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
The lawman commissioner said officers recovered leaflets pinch "all nan details" provided to nan protesters.
"There are leaflets connected really to protestation leaflets aliases really to perpetrate civilian disobedience. There are leaflets connected what to do erstwhile you get arrested, leaflets connected what to opportunity to police," Daughtry explained.
He reiterated: "There is personification backing this. There is personification radicalizing our students."
During nan remarks, nan NYPD said that "99%" of those arrested connected Friday were students. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
During nan remarks, nan constabulary main noted that "99%" of those arrested connected Friday were students.
Chell past publication 1 portion of lit that urged students to "occupy nan occupiers."
"Enter nan impermanent autonomous area from New York to Gaza," different said. "Disrupt. Reclaim. Destroy Zionist business interests everywhere."
"Long unrecorded nan intifada," publication another.
"So this is nan mindset of immoderate of these protests for sure," Chell added.
"Long unrecorded nan intifada," publication 1 leaflet astatine nan anti-Israel demonstration. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
The NYPD main of patrol besides said responding officers gave nan protesters astatine NYU "multiple options" for them to "leave peacefully" and clear nan segment without being arrested.
"A mates said, I want to beryllium arrested," Chell said. "And we said, okay."
The main besides clarified that nan cognition was not a "raid," for illustration what protesters and protesters knowledgeable astatine nan University of California, Los Angeles.
More than 2,000 protesters person been arrested astatine colleges and universities crossed nan U.S. successful caller weeks. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
"The 2 assemblage presidents successful penning requested what they needed, what they wanted, and I wouldn't telephone it a raid," Chell said. "I would telephone it nan removal of kids who were trespassing. That's what I would telephone it."
More than 2,000 protesters person been arrested astatine colleges and universities crossed nan U.S. successful caller weeks, including students, faculty, and extracurricular agitators.
