As protests over Israel's war in Gaza continue, the New York Police Department said one of its officers accidentally discharged gun on Columbia campus.
NYU claims to be a “campus without walls,” despite actively building barriers both on campus and between students. Gould Plaza, a shared community space in front of the Stern School of Business, is now walled off by hastily-constructed green plywood boards. This wall was installed hours after a pro-Palestinian encampment at the plaza, where.
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This is a developing story, check back for updates. Update, 9:22 p.m. Police have left the barricade and are now stationed inside the Paulson Center lobby, and around 30 officers remain outside the building’s entrance. About 20 counterprotesters have begun chanting from the Bleecker Street side of Paulson. NYU announced the Paulson Center is on.
President Linda Mills said less than half of the protesters arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Gould Plaza “were current NYU students, faculty or staff” in a universitywide email earlier this evening. Mills stated that hundreds of demonstrators on campus last Monday “did not have permission to be at NYU” and “significantly threatened” the.