Boston Mayor Brianna Wu backed the police officers who arrested pro-Palestinian Emerson College students, on Wednesday evening, as they protested from an encampment in an alleyway near their campus.
Boston police cleared a tent encampment at Emerson College and arrested more than 100 protesters overnight, the school's president said Thursday, as pro-Palestinian demonstrations rile universities the country over.
Students at Harvard, MIT, and Tufts staged similar protests, part of a national movement by college students demanding their universities sever ties with any company that is aiding Israeli military action in Gaza.