Columbia Students Occupy Campus Building During Pro-Palestinian Protest

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Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a building on New York’s Columbia University campus overnight into Tuesday morning, April 30, after the university began suspending students who had failed to leave an encampment.

A large group of people left the campus encampment just after midnight and entered the Hamilton Hall building, the New York Times reported.

Footage filmed by the Party for Socialism and Liberation showed the group linking arms outside the building blockading its entrance. The crowd are heard chanting “hey hey, ho ho, the occupation has got to go.”

Images published by the Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper, showed broken windows and masked protesters using barricades and zip-ties to hold doors shut.

An NYPD spokesperson told the paper that officers were outside of campus but were not entering.

This is a developing story. Credit: Party for Socialism and Liberation via Storyful

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