New York City Mayor Eric Adams‘s allegations that several pro-Palestinian campus protesters were outside agitators have proven to be not as numerous as claimed.
A review of police records and interviews from the New York Times showed that just nine people out of the dozens of protesters arrested at Columbia University had no ties to the campus and had protested at other universities.
Columbia enlisted the NYPD this week to clear out students who had overtaken and occupied Hamilton Hall. More than 100 people were arrested as NYPD cleared out protesters, with many of those arrested having no previous histories of protesting at other colleges.
They simply arrived at the university in solidarity with those demonstrating on campus.
“I sort of had to laugh because I guess you
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