Police officers arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators at City College of New York in Harlem late Tuesday night, as clashes over the war in Gaza continued to escalate on campuses across the country.
Earlier in the evening, protesters tried to take over an administrative building at City College. Police officers chased the crowd, which had been running toward the Howard E. Wille Administration Building just after 7:30 p.m. Most of the demonstrators returned to their nearby encampment.
The police first made arrests at near West 139th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem. Demonstrators could be heard screaming and cursing at the police, and an officer could be heard ordering the crowd to back away as protesters were arrested. Moments later the police warned everyone to leave the area. They then moved onto the campus and arrested people in the encampments.
The arrests came as officials at nearby Columbia University asked the New York Police Department to clear a building that had been occupied.
