Dozens arrested at Columbia University as New York police disperse Gaza protest

Dozens arrested at Columbia University as New York police disperse Gaza protest

NYPD officers move on to campus on Tuesday evening to clear out Hamilton Hall building taken over by protesters

US campus protests – live updates

Hundreds of New York City police officers entered Columbia University on Tuesday evening to clear an academic building taken over by pro-Palestinian students the day before, as tensions surrounding the students’ campus encampment for Gaza have roiled the New York school for two weeks.

Live video images showed police in riot gear marching on to the upper Manhattan campus, the focal point of nationwide student protests opposing Israel’s war in Gaza.

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