Police arrest dozens of protesters at Yale University encampment
The arrests come following the erection of a protest encampment in the model of the tents set up at Columbia University earlier this week.
More than forty protesters were arrested at Yale University Monday morning, according to the Yale Daily News.
A video posted to social media showed police officers warning students, "We have been given a few minutes to clear the area," and telling them, "If you do not leave, you will be arrested." Other videos, uploaded shortly thereafter, showed students being led onto shuttles in zip-ties.
The student protestors at Yale are being zip-tied and loaded into a university shuttle. pic.twitter.com/MQ8Td29RUO
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The arrests come following the erection of a protest encampment in the model of the tents set up at Columbia University earlier this week, where police arrested more than a hundred protesters before the demonstration quickly reconstituted itself.
Two protesters have been charged with criminal trespass in the first degree, the Daily News wrote.
The arrests came as condemnations poured in of similar demonstrations in New York City, where student protesters have been recorded expressing full-throated support for Hamas and the October 7 attacks and calling for "intifada."
Jewish leadership has responded to the situation on the Columbia campus by providing round-the-clock police presence as well as police escorts for Jewish students, and one rabbi advised students returning home for Passover not to come back to campus until their safety could be guaranteed.
MIT students set up encampment
Another encampment was erected Sunday night at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. Video of protesters erecting the demonstration recorded chants (in Arabic) of "From the water to the water, Palestine is Arab."
Other sites where Boston demonstrations were conducted along the Columbia model were Emerson College and Tufts University. An indoor encampment has been erected at the New School in downtown Manhattan as well.
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