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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Police Arrest Protestors At University of Texas-Austin

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Columbia University, the epicenter of the weeklong pro-Palestinian protests, said it has begun suspending students who refused to abide by a deadline to vacate the campus encampment. Another Ivy League school, Cornell University, said it was suspending student protesters who declined to move to an alternate location. The college protests are raising legal questions around free speech.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is CNN Breaking News.

0:02.0

Welcome to the Lean Up, Jake Tapper.

0:06.0

We start with Breaking News,

0:08.0

stark scenes of division, protest, arrests, and at times blatant anti-Semitism sweeping college campuses will bring you to the University of Texas in Austin in just a minute where police in riot gear just encircled a group of protesters.

0:20.0

Some arrests have reportedly been made, but first this afternoon at Columbia University in New York

0:25.4

student protesters just blew past their 2 p.m. deadline to clear the encampment or risk

0:31.4

suspension or even expulsion according to Columbia

0:34.2

administrators. Students circled the tents as a group of student leaders

0:37.8

addressed the crowd. Take a listen.

0:40.3

You can see outside you now that the students are mobilized. There's hundreds of them here today.

0:48.0

They will not be moved. We demand divestment. We will not be moved unless by force.

0:57.0

Right now, the New York Police Department is on standby waiting for an official order from the university.

1:02.0

Meanwhile, an anonymous Jewish student is suing Columbia today accusing

1:06.4

the college for the newly instituted hybrid class model saying

1:10.9

that those who use it because they fear violence on campus

1:14.3

that creates a quote second-class education for Jewish students at Columbia and

1:18.5

Barnard while the university remains defiant on not

1:21.7

divesting from Israel or from any other country.

1:25.2

One of the protesters key demands, the Columbia

1:28.7

administration says they will move forward on holding a

1:30.9

commencement ceremony in mid-May.

1:33.4

Across the United States right now, at times violent protests and arrest are causing faculty

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