NYPD arrests dozens of Columbia University protesters after clearing occupied building
Hundreds of New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have entered the campus of Columbia University, taking multiple protesters into custody, in the latest escalation in the Gaza protests that have swept college campuses, mostly in the United States.
NYPD officers used flash-bang grenades to breach Columbia's Hamilton Hall, which protesters had barricaded themselves inside Tuesday.
Live television images showed officers entering the university in upper Manhattan, which has been the focal point of student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, in which more than 34,535 Palestinians have been killed.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo and Kristen Saloomey join us live outside Columbia University in New York to discuss the latest updates.
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How does history tend to remember mass student protest that are met with police crack-down?
The morality is so obviously in favour of the students
American police have become a gesta po-po for Izrael. Sad ain't it?
The protesters of the 60s ended up working on Wall Street.😅 Let's check out these idiots in 10 years.
They have accomplished bringing the spotlight to a horrific and unjust genocide of innocents by a fascist military acting against established rules of war and humanitarian decency. They are actively demonstrating that the Palestinians are being treated as subhuman, and it needs to stop. Like someone should have stopped Hitler. They are acting on the right side of history. They bravely step up and shout FIRE while others stand by and do nothing but watch the fire. Thank God for these young persons with pure hearts and motives❤
@@marycronopulosraz9776 that’s because that generation was less concerned about the Vietnamese and more about themselves being drafted… the difference with now is the young people feel empathy for others and disapprove of paying for Israel’s madness
This is what you called democracy USA?
It’s a private university. I guess if someone do a pro Isreal really in your house you’ll be happy right ?
Here in the us they are straight up calling these kids terrorist. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
well they are
Kkkk because kids understood their hepocracy.
You should feel ashamed of this students…America is not with you…
Anyone who supports Terrorism, is a terrorist in some sense..
@@simrock1893 they did nothing, jews came and attacked in the middle of the night like their brothers in murder in isarel. THe cover of the night is temporary
Imagine being willingly turned into a gestapo for a foreign country. Pathetic
"It matters not what puppet is placed upon the throne, he who controls the money supply, controls the Empire"
That’s called courage and empathy. Something a coward p**sy like you won’t understand.
congratulations america, ur capital has been moved to tel aviv
What does one have to do with the other???? What about other student who are not pro Israel or pro Hamas? So many students come to the university for education not for political purposes??
Crying babies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
shouldn't have messed with our flags, a line was crossed
America, what a joke.
The joke is on the Arabs
And who will prosecute the police for commiting these crimes?
Blinken should make a speech that the police’s offer is extraordinarily generous!
Pro Peace VS Pro Genocide
Ah! freedom of Speech Ah! Human Rights, Ah! Democracy .
If these are truly our future leaders we might as well pack it in right now.
The US is acting like a totalitarian state. What happened to the land of the free? All that talk about democracy and freedom and they cannot take criticism for their role in the genocide carried out by Israel. 🇵🇸
What genocide? Gaza attacked Israel on the 7th, declared war on it and since then has fired rockets at Israel non-stop. you have to be brainless money to believe all this pro-Hamas Kremlin-styled propaganda, which doesn't make any sense.
Democracy doesn’t give you a green light to break the laws of the country and hurt others. Democracy is freedom of religion and freedom of speech as long as it’s done peacefully and respectfully.
And Blinken has the audacity to accuse China of genocide, which is a total fabrication by US CIA and CIA asset the World Uyghur Congress backed by US government. Beware any organization backed by US government that claim to promote democracy, human rights, freedom blah blah blah, they are the OPPOSITE of what they promote.
I guess because America have freedom doesn’t mean there is no rule. It’s a private university after all
"It matters not what puppet is placed upon the throne, he who controls the money supply, controls the Empire"
Your "democracy" sucks big time Armourica.
Democracy does not give you the right to destroy properties and threaten people nor does it give you the right to disobey the laws of the country which you live in.
Shut up mf! USA don't need you!!! Go back to GAZA!
Isn’t the school there for the students? Who uses a swat team to make students leave their school? Nice lesson in how authoritarianism works.
It's a business, students are customers. You don't let customers trash your business.
@@MrCleitusyou call swat?use your brain.
Endowments, tuition fees, research grants, alumni donations and other revenue streams contribute towards financial stability and support their educational aims. As of the 2021/22 academic year, Ivy League institutions generated $40.61 billion in total revenue. The federal government provides enormous subsidies to the wealthiest universities by paying “overhead” on research grants. Ivy League universities received $1.8 billion for government-funded research grants despite having $192 billion in endowment funds. - something for those naysays to consider. With the MONEY the universities make why is any student in America paying tuition? These universities make enough money a year to pay for your education, your kids education, and your grandchildren’s education. However, they instead give it to countries like Israel who turn around and give it to the U.S. government to buy weapons.
Its like that in all countries , what is your alternative , its been like that for 800 years ? A lot of the money goes to grants , if your in sports or you've got high grades you can get grants or free education in some cases so its not that bad but I suppose there could be improvements , I agree . As technology improves , the institutions will be forced to reform , you'll see . Anyways ivy league schools are still the best in the world , and its not cheap
@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 SO you think 🤔 that MONEY should go to Israel so they can BUY weapons?? YOU PREFER that instead of putting the money back into the U.S. economy, we GIVE IT AWAY TO ANOTHER Country? What countries? Because in Israel they have a cap on college tuitions. 3-5k A YEAR for a BA, this includes EVERYTHING. While American students tuition goes up every year.
@@DeannThomas-le2ut lol , its a free market , institutions decide on cost , its not collectivism
US government is the biggest Ponzi Scheme cesspool!
Leave the country and find a better place to live then.
As an Egyptian college student i'm tremendously frustrated about our inaction 😓
Until when the police want to arrest students and civilians who stand up for the truth and protest peacefully so that there are no more weapons for Israel to commit Genocide. More and more US citizens are realizing and saying Enough is Enough.
Go back to your country & finish your frustrations
History in the making. The leaders of the future. Thank you
Ultra modern extra civilised democracy.
😂
U.S.A. enforcing democracy
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." -Thomas Jefferson
Does Egypt or UAE or S Arabia …have a single university with students bold enough to say NO to mass killing of children and women in Gaza? Thanks to students of Colombia university for such a historic solidarity!
They don’t care about their bretheren. They are using them and exploiting them to further the Jihad globally
Nope
Ditto
Arabs don't care about Palestinians..only iran,north Korea China and Russia like hamas
They have a puppet govt install by the west who will serve them and brutalise their own citizens, majority of the public don't like their puppet govt.
From the river to the sea, Palestinians will be free.
How's it that Americans can protest against policies of their leaders but never against that of Isreal. Who owns the U.S.
Because AIPAC headquarters is in USA.
Everywhere dectator, he might be a democratic-dictator or communist- dictator or a princly-dictator. The moral of human beings in the world is diminishing. Democracy, human rights, and equality are the arnamantal words.
College: "We will not risk escalation!" Also college: *immediately escalates with armed farm animals*
Standing up against evil is a crime.
Only in US
@@Clarahalfstone77Why they wont protest against hamas . They deserve madarsa not illegible for universty
Until when the police want to arrest students and civilians who stand up for the truth and protest peacefully so that there are no more weapons for Israel to commit Genocide. More and more US citizens are realizing and saying Enough is Enough.
Standing up against campus violence is a crime you dimwit
@@RajKumar-bq9hbprobably because the ones that have killed tens of thousands of civilians are the Israelis?
History doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes. - Mark Twain
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Columbia University has made a positive contribution in the human history. I salute them. The future generations will remain indebted to them for the fairness in the human relations and improving the sense of humanity around the world.
It's real cute they think we'll ever stop until Gaza is free.
Safe the youths 😊
Do you think this force will win?
Shame on the NYPD!
These students are amazing and very brave - Free Palestine
Get your facts right Al Jazeera. It's Hind Hall. Hind Hall!!!
Future is yours. Shape it, the way you want it.
Yep that why we put them in jail they were paid agitators
police crackdown is a crime
So called American Democracy at play here servants
These brave young heroes , risking so much to stand up for the victims of genocide, restore our faith in humanity. We are so grateful to them for their brave principled stand. Their families should be so very proud of them
Hypocritical behavior of the west and u.s.
Look at how goofy the cops are in their beefy gear using million dollar siege vehicles to get all those khakis through the window. This is for a political protest. Cowards.
The police acting like a dictator country
America is an international dictatorship.
They are doing job, these pro Palestine should be deported!
😂 reporter "don't know what happened but the useful idiots were seen away to police stations "😂😂😂😂
6:25 That’s not an ordinary undercover police car. It’s a TLC pleated New York Uber/Lyft car passing through the tyrannous situation while showing deep solidarity.
Which country is this?
What a wonderful, brave young students, aware of injustice and terrible crimes committed,who are peacefully fighting against monstrous genocide in Gaza and for the most important humanitarian values of freedom,equality and justice that have been trampled. They are the pride and hope of humanity.
USA, freedom of speech and the right to protest. Yeah right.🇵🇸
Sometimes it does not need democracy. Most of the Arab countries people have no right to protest for their right but those who fled from those countries do not protest against the inhumanity what they experienced. Go to Iran, turkey and Saudi Arabia
Israel has a right to defend itself. Does Palestinians have a right to live? ✋️🔥👶💔😪😭🔥🇮🇱🇺🇸🔥⛔️🚫✋️
❤Students❤
Why did these kids or people break the windows and occupy a building? They need to behave and protest legally.
Stop Genocide in Gaza
Permenantly
Well its important to respect the cops , the cops are just trying to prevent a riot , without the cops people would be beating each other up on campus , protests need to remain respectful if they want to protest but I fully understand why people are protesting , its clear that they are protesting for peace against Israel's illegal blockade but in any case protests need to remain peaceful , they need to get permission before entering a building or a hall or blocking a gate . Its sad that the university has engaged in activity to suppress free speech but the protesters are also to blame for acting like hooligans in some cases
Kevin not too smart.
😂😂😂 Free-speech
On May 1st I left a large batch of comments and a blog post about the pro-Israeli people attacking and provoking the Palestinian protesters at USA universities. On May 2nd and May 3rd, I was attacked with laser or microwave weapons. One attack rendered me unconscious for a couple hours, and the other left me with swelling and pain on the right side of my head. I do not believe that this was caused by a natural illness, because of the timing of it and because I got a warning of severe danger just before I was attacked yesterday. Today I am still struggling with the residual effects or possibly continued microwaving. I pray for my safety too.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸Free Students
Yep, “That’s a great way to get the Student Democratic Vote.”
then put trump in there, middle east will love him
@@ryanbock6478 The Definition of Insanity “Is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.” “The Democrats and Republicans need to be voted out of office and both parties removed from Governance.” The corrupt Left-wing Corporate Democrats and the Corrupt Right-Wing Corporate Republicans have proved again and again that they are incapable of Governance. My Vote will go to Jill Stein (Green Party)
@@ryanbock6478 The Definition of Insanity “Is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.” “The Democrats and Republicans need to be voted out of office and both parties removed from Governance.” The corrupt Left-wing Corporate Democrats and the Corrupt Right-Wing Corporate Republicans have proved again and again that they are incapable of Governance.
Is reel alike police b. rutality
Until when the police want to arrest students and civilians who stand up for the truth and protest peacefully so that there are no more weapons for Israel to commit Genocide. More and more US citizens are realizing and saying Enough is Enough.
Well its important to respect the cops , the cops are just trying to prevent a riot , without the cops people would be beating each other up on campus , protests need to remain respectful if they want to protest but I fully understand why people are protesting , its clear that they are protesting for peace against Israel's illegal blockade but in any case protests need to remain peaceful , they need to get permission before entering a building or a hall or blocking a gate . Its sad that the university has engaged in activity to suppress free speech but the protesters are also to blame for acting like hooligans
Please, don't talk nonsense! Did the cops respect the students when they brutally attacked them? Especially the female students, is that ok with you? They are actually going to kill someone with their police brutality. Would that be ok with you? Take a moment to think what they are protesting about! The US is complicit in a genocide, 100.000 human beings slaughtered and injured, 14.000 children killed, is that ok with you? Do you still think you live in a democracy? The United States of Israel is now where you reside.
STOP the Genocide Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🙏❤️🇬🇧
For those who complain about democracy, leave America and go to Arab countries and establish your own democracy there.
Instead of asking pro-Palestinians to condemn Hamas, do an experiment and ask them the following question: "If Israel could eliminate Hamas without harming women and children, would you support that?" You will be shocked by the answer.
Better ask pro isrl "do you support a ceasefire after you heard 14000 children has been mur-dered?"
Shame on pro Zionist police hostility!
Freedom of speech is not an absolute right.
Genocide is fundamentally wrong.
@JackBackman-rd1uw Cool. So don't suppress people who are saying that.
@JackBackman-rd1uw I think you'll find that that is pretty much the definition of suppression. * Without all the pitiful hasbara rhetoric you clumsily jammed in there, of course.
in this world only zionists have absolute rights
Yes you can protest in his livingroom 😂
Her lips are distracting…. which says a lot given the situation at hand
Why are there no protest in Muslim countries?
Because muslim countries do not support gen-ocide?
😮there have been massive protests against the genocide in arab and muslim countries..all over the world ..indeed all over the world.where have you been??
لَا يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِٱللَّغْوِ فِىٓ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَاخِذُكُم بِمَا عَقَّدتُّمُ ٱلْأَيْمَٰنَ ۖ فَكَفَّٰرَتُهُۥٓ إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَٰكِينَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ ۖ فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلَٰثَةِ أَيَّامٍ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ كَفَّٰرَةُ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ إِذَا حَلَفْتُمْ ۚ وَٱحْفَظُوٓا۟ أَيْمَٰنَكُمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ , , .ولم أسمعه يرخص في شيء مما يقول الناس إلا في ثلاث: تعني الحرب، والإصلاح بين الناس، وحديث الرجل امرأته، وحديث المرأة زوجها. ,. ,,.
Sute
Hamas channel tell them to go and protest in Gaza
There was destruction of property
I trust the US
Syrian students entering US on a visa and destroying property. Try that in Syria and see how long you live.
I believe it's crucial to consider amending laws in the US to prevent protesters from covering their faces, making it a felony due to potential security risks. This practice, often associated with extremists and those hiding behind pro-Hamas terrorist sentiments while posing as pro-Palestinian protesters, poses a threat, especially in educational institutions. We need transparency, especially for future government employees, to prevent potential infiltration by extremist elements. Additionally, there's a glaring hypocrisy in claiming freedom of speech while hiding identities, undermining the sincerity of their cause. It's essential for both the government and investigative journalists to trace the money trail, identifying foreign influences fueling chaos. Those arrested, particularly students, should be documented to prevent future workplace sabotage. Insurance companies should not cover damages that could have been avoided by expelling these individuals before they illegally broke into buildings. Furthermore, universities should ensure equal treatment, refraining from merely giving a slap on the wrist to these pro-Hamas thugs.
When Al Jazeera realises that the student hippies are of no help, they will move on to their next hope.. Maybe the US kindergarten movement 😅
Look like Hamas are desperate 😂
First on the highway,then university, peaceful protest has a limit,not like blocking people's from reaching airports,blocking in the middle of the roads causing massive traffic jams,causing other students cannot attend the university
Vietnam.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE STUDENTS. FREE PALESTINE
People following Al Jazeera always make me laugh
Can this kind of protest be done in Qatar? …. Even with the continuous violation of women rights….I guess the answer is no
these do not represent the majority, they actually help Trump to POTUS
Those are hamas
Bah ha ha ha. Partys over.
Finally. Thank God for peace.
Nope it ain't over, watch the space😂😂
No Justice, No Peace! This has only just begun.
Islamic brothers hood
Stay strong students and free Palestine 🇵🇸
Comissioner trying his very best to save his career. Bend over harder commissioner 😂
THIS IS PROOF OF HOW MUCH POWER AIPAC HAS, EVEN IN SCULPTING AMERICA'S FUTURE. ISRALE NO CRITICISM IS ALLOWED. BOW TO YOUR MASTER BE A GOOD BOY
Y amrican government adamant the demand the right to protest y Belady amrican government saprt to Belady israily what is the reason you amrican government saport dear students don't laidown you're demand please keep strong protest make history strong history off students day throwing baidan government please students don't give up years demand
Ironclad unethical financing. The US funds Israel --- Israel funds Aipac --- Aipac funds US representatives----- House of representative funds Israel
Waw...
All these students make history, make themselves “fools” in history 😢
Liberal woke idiots. To dumb to know any facts.
Idiots
Salute Dear Students, In the Ideal world, never forget your patience....
I SALUTE 101 TIME USA STUDENT FOR STAND PHALISTEN PEOPLE'S ARAB COUNTRIES MINESTERS SHAME
No doubt Western media will destroy student image ...😢😢😢