NYPD arrests protesters on Columbia University's campus

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🗓️ 1 May 2024

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The New York Police Department arrested protestors at Columbia University who barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall. Plus this is the second week of Donald Trump's New York's criminal trial as the jury continues to hear testimony. And, we breakdown the former president's interview with TIME Magazine on just exactly what his second term would look like. Antonia Hylton, Jim Cavanaugh, Carmen Best, Cedric Alexnader, George Conway, Susan Glasser, Neal Katyal,Catherine Christian,and Sam Jacobs join.

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0:00.0	We are covering breaking news this evening at Columbia University here in
0:07.7	Manhattan where protests against the Israel-Hamass war in Gaza have been
0:12.2	underway for several days. Just after 9 PM
0:15.4	Eastern, the New York City Police Department breached Hamilton Hall using a
0:19.8	truck with a ramp that happened almost 24 hours after protesters broke into the building and
0:26.0	occupied it.
0:27.2	The NYPD says Hamilton Hall is now cleared and so is the tent encampment on the south lawn of the campus.
0:34.8	An NYPD spokesperson spoke to NBC news shortly after the officers went in.
0:40.2	The building was very heavily fortified. The doorways were blocked by soda machines, couches, plywood. So there were rumors that the NYPD used tear gas.
0:54.2	The NYPD does not use tear gas.
0:56.4	We used a distraction device.
0:58.4	It's a device that's thrown.
0:59.8	It makes a very loud bang.
1:01.4	A stun grenade. It's a distraction device. grenade.
1:03.0	It's a distraction device.
1:05.0	It makes a loud noise.
1:06.0	That a lot our officers to get enough time to get through the barricades.
1:10.0	Columbia University formally requested law enforcement's help earlier this evening.
1:15.9	The week's long demonstration escalated after negotiations with school officials broke down.
1:21.4	Columbia issued a statement saying the following, quote,
1:24.0	the decision to reach out to the NYPD was in response to the actions of the protesters,
1:29.7	not the cause they are championing. We have made it clear that the life of campus cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters
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