US Edition7 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Brooklyn College: NYPD
- Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police at Brooklyn College on Thursday evening in New York amid efforts to disperse a tent encampment.
- The confrontation followed Brooklyn College officials calling police around 4:50 p.m. After demonstrators violated campus rules by erecting tents in an area named the Hassan Ayyad Liberated Zone.
- Between 50 and 100 officers faced roughly 80 protesters livestreamed on social media, with demonstrators attempting to occupy Boylan Hall and refusing to remove tents despite repeated requests.
- At Brooklyn College, authorities made at least seven arrests and issued court summonses to seven additional individuals. A loudspeaker announcement warned that anyone remaining on the premises against orders risked arrest and charges related to disorderly behavior.
- This latest protest forms part of intensified pro-Palestinian activism on campuses responding to the Gaza conflict, prompting police intervention and administrative enforcement of university policies to maintain safety and academic order.
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