Thirteen arrested at NYU and 43 at New School, NYPD says, as encampments cleared in downtown Manhattan
Police began clearing out protesters at New York University (NYU) in downtown Manhattan on Friday as pressure continued to build on the city’s mayor, Eric Adams, to divulge how many of the 282 people arrested at uptown Columbia and City College of New York (CCNY) on Tuesday night were non-students – after he blamed “outside agitators” for prompting a crackdown.
Campuses elsewhere were relatively quiet overnight, while the recent weeks of escalated pro-Palestinian protests across more than 40 campuses nationwide have resulted in almost 2,200 arrests, according to an Associated Press tally.