Been underway for several days. Just after 9 00 p. M. Eastern the new York City Police department breached Hamilton Hall using a truck with a ramp. That happened almost 24 hours after protesters broke into the building and occupied it. The nypd says Hamilton Hall is now cleared and so is the Tent Encampment on the south lawn of the campus. An nypd spokesperson spoke to nbc news shortly after the officers went in. The building was very heavily fortified. Doorways were blocked by Soda Machines, couches, plywood. So there were rumors that the nypd used tear gas. The nypd does not use tear gas. We use a Distraction Device. It is a device that is thrown and makes a loud bang. A stun grenade. It is a Distraction Device that makes a loud noise. That allowed officers time to get through the barricades. Columbia university formally requested Law Enforcement help earlier this evening. The weeks long negotiation broke down. Columbia released a statement saying the following. Quote, the decision t
Being the Strategic Response officers were seeing more arrived now and get information the question now obviously is, when do they have the green light to go in . We dont know. We are expecting it at any moment and we keep seeing the officers move around, but its not entirely clear where theyre going, so okay. Were just going to walk this way again because i dont want to get were going to check in one keep us an form. Were going to check in with Julia Vargas Jones, who is On Campus Outside Hamilton Hall. Julia im just wondering if any how are you what are the last few minutes been like anything youve been seeing . We saw a large Movement Anderson of students all the way to the one 14 gate thats the one that shimon was mentioning there is Police Presence over there on that side. You see people just walking, trying to see if this trying to figure out where police will come in from and where they will be. The safest, honestly, a lot of a lot of the students that went way, they kinda like
Forward with indycar because were with everybody xiao powering progress im Melanie Zanona in washington and this is cnn on your screen right now, you can see what weve been watching develop over the last hour or so, police have moved into Columbia University to move those propalestinian demonstrators out of the building that theyve occupied since last night, hundreds and hundreds of Law Enforcement. You can see have swarmed onto the campus or in the case of the screen, youre looking at right now, the picture youre looking at right now, just off campus, we have seen Law Enforcement move people onto buses presumably under arrest. Weve also seen the police simply move people off the campus and let them go on their way. We have seen no violent encounters but billy, between police and protesters as of now, when we have seen police move into Hamilton Hall itself, that is the building that was occupied overnight by these protesters. Let me read you a statement from Columbia University which e
[sfx] water splashing. [sfx] ambient laughing. So anytime, join me a charmed. Com how wed really happen with jesse you, martin, sundays at nih on cnn this is Breaking News Breaking News tonight, and eerie, calm at Columbia University tonight, the nypd says university of property is clear just about now, three hours after hundreds of officers entered the campus at the universitys request, this the new video of Police Clearing Hamilton Hall, which is taken over by propalestinian protesters just last night the doors had been barricaded with chairs and tables and Vending Machines, flash bangs, were used to breach the building according to the police. And police say miraculously that nobody was injured during the operation. Cnn on the Scene Tonight Reporting dozens of people have been arrested and also loaded onto buses. And were learning tonight that the wife of an indicted terrorist was on the campus last week. Its worth pointed to a post on x by sammy lrn, a former University Of Southern
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