impacts you see around the university, the president right there is saying this, again, has disrupted campus life for so many people. i was talking to several students again who don t have strong opinions about any of the things going on on the israel/hamas war and they said for them this was even bother some. it was hard to get across in the morning, it was hard to get to class in the midday and the evening hours, and now the president clearly choosing to authorize the nypd to come in and remove these protesters because it has become a point of contention for people to go about their day-to-day life on campus. some protesters are currently live streaming what is happening on social media. and this may not come as a surprise to some but they are very upset at the president and they say they feel she has turned the campus into a military state. they are echoing their calls for
let s bring in lieutenant joe cardinality, thank you for joining us. i will let you respond to what we are seeing play out on our screen and from the young democratic socialists of america student group, a huge college group. they are treating this as they watch on with us. student repression has been worsening at college campuses across the u.s. today columbia called the nypd to arrest their own students on campus. this is a suppression of free speech and cannot continue. shame on columbia. your thoughts on what we are watching and hearing. shame for them for even posting that. that is ridiculous. you know, i agree with nicole. they have come to a point in society and in new york city where everything is tolerated. and they get away with everything. it s about time we are putting up for them and enforcing the law. this is nothing but hate crimes.
because we cannot continue as a nation to go forward like this. gillian: nicole, this is gillian, the president of the university may have a message today by calling in the nypd but is there more she could have done and is there more the university administrators could have done to prevent us from getting or to prevent their school from getting to the point where we are today where you have dozens of protesters getting rounded up by police? you have this protester presents shutting down part of manhattan and you have thousands of jewish students now talking about how they feel not only unwelcome to but physically threatened on their own campus. i mean these students are living in fear. how could they not be in fear? look what is happening. this is 2024. what happened to the we are supposed to love one another and accept shutter as they are and we are all going to embrace one another, that is not with these demonstrators are showing.
then last night we saw during some of the protests on the campus there people making specific threats against not only israelis but jew come we saw th setting off layers, how does the nypd generally look at those types of activities and te is that considered threatening? what i saw happen in the summer of 2020 in our country, i mean, i saw cities literally burned to the ground and activities were taken and law enforcement in many situations felt their hands were tied but i feel like we are in a new this is a whole nother issue. there is a lot of hate in our country right now and we have to come together and find a mutual respect. it is a very, very dangerous situation. but again, nypd has their chain of command, they have their plans in place and i am so grateful to them. i am so grateful to them that
with their wrists zip tied, a former fbi special agent on the upper west side in manhattan to see the nypd arriving at the request of the president of the university. it was a bombshell decision on the part of the university to call in the police to remove these students. anti-israel protesters, she did inform the students this would take place, it would be necessary if they did not get off that lawn and remove themselves from those encampments of this started after 1:00 eastern time about one hour ago. we saw police arrive on the scene they re wearing body armor, face shields to start to remove these students. nicole, your thoughts? it s the university president s job to protect the students first and foremost. one students feel threatened,