NEW YORK — New York City police entered Columbia University on Tuesday night to clear out a pro-Palestinian encampment and remove students who had barricaded themselves in a university building, leading to dozens of arrests.
Police in riot gear first entered the campus just after 9:00 p.m. EST after scores of NYPD personnel amassed around the Morningside Heights campus. They were met by protesters chanting on megaphones, "Students, students hold the crowd, NYPD, back down."
At around 9:20 p.m., police surrounded the south lawn of the Gaza encampment but found no students present. Shortly afterward, the NYPD surrounded Hamilton Hall, the college building demonstrators have occupied since early Tuesday morning. The college leadership had ordered........