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News Wrap: Police clear pro-Palestinian encampments at 3 more universities

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Friday, police moved in to clear out pro-Palestinian encampments at three universities across the country, the battlefront in Ukraine has shifted to the Kharkiv region, the death toll from flooding in Brazil rose to 113, two public schools in Virginia are getting their old names for Confederate figures back and NOAA issued its first geomagnetic storm watch in 20 years. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

In the day's other headlines police moved in to clear out pro-Palestinian

0:04.7

encampments at three universities across the country. Lisa de Jardin has the

0:09.2

story. Before sunrise police arrived at the University of Pennsylvania to

0:14.1

disband a two-week pro-Palestinian encampment.

0:17.3

Arrest is closed.

0:18.9

Some demonstrators were hauled away and more than 30 people were arrested.

0:22.8

Governor Josh Shapiro said they were warned.

0:25.7

By their own admission, the leaders at the University of Pennsylvania

0:31.4

have made clear that those protesters, those who are living in

0:36.2

these so-called encampments, are violating the rules of the university and in some

0:42.4

cases the laws of the

0:45.0

city of Philadelphia.

0:46.0

In Boston a similar pre-Dawn scene at MIT,

0:49.0

police removed tents and barriers.

0:51.0

Ten protesters were arrested, but some... tents and barriers. We'll be back.

0:53.0

Ten protesters were arrested, but some remained defiant.

0:57.0

It's actually quite embarrassing.

0:59.0

They had hundreds of riot gear officers, state troopers,

1:02.0

all to come down for a student encampment

1:04.5

that was peaceful throughout its time here.

1:07.1

And in Tucson, Riot police at the University of Arizona fired tear gas at protesters

1:11.9

and broke down wood and plastic barriers.

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