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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, just to summarize (Columbia University)
The Police opened a window in Hamilton Hall and climbed inside.
They're walking out with arrested protestors one by one.
Have I missed anything?
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,244 posts)Cha
(298,334 posts)RandySF
(60,222 posts)But the did use flash-bangs.
LexVegas
(6,126 posts)dlilafae
(88 posts)Super weird watching the what? - 80 some police officers awkwardly climb through the window. I was thinking (after about 20 or so police piled in) maybe they could go open the door? Glad it seemed to be peaceful, brooklynite.
elias7
(4,041 posts)Both were Columbia people, first was an English or lit professor, then someone from the law school involved in negotiations that died after 8-9 days. No explosoins or violence. Not yet tragic, imo
SunSeeker
(51,902 posts)About 100 people were arrested without incident and the campus was cleared rather quickly (both Hamilton Hall and the encampment). He said this was a big improvement over how NYPD viciously cleared Vietnam protesters at Columbia in 1968, when they were beaten mercilessly.
LeftInTX
(25,928 posts)I feel sorry for their president trying to deal with those professors. Someone even wrote an Op-ed about how the professors were the problem.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,226 posts)Poor dears hadn't eaten in at least three or four hours, and they were so looking forward to the MREs of pate de foie gras and rack of lamb and avocado toast. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218909869 (Columbia protesters want to be fed while the occupy campus building)
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