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Source: Columbia Spectator

This is the largest mass arrest on Columbia’s campus since the NYPD arrested 109 protesters during a sweep of Hamilton Hall and the second “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in April 2024.

“We are facing one of the largest militarized police forces in the world. Deputized Public Safety officers have choked and beaten us, but we have not wavered. We refuse to show our IDs under militarized arrest. We refuse to go down quietly.”