Following a mass rally in downtown New Haven, around 250 pro-Palestine protesters set up 40 tents on Cross Campus, where they moved after police cleared a previous encampment on Beinecke Plaza and arrested 44 students.
The encampment began Friday, continuing a weeklong surge of protests on Beinecke Plaza in favor of military weapons divestment. Over 600 pro-Palestine protesters have gathered; pro-Israel demonstrators also were on the Plaza but left at 11 p.m.
Yale President Peter Salovey said that the University “will pursue disciplinary actions according to its policies,” in reference to the ongoing encampment on Beinecke Plaza. He also wrote that there have been reports of “intimidation and harassment,” which he said Yale police are investigating.
Two Yale administrators, Hannah Peck and Andrew Forsythe, read a message that if the approximately 250 protesters present did not vacate Beinecke Plaza and remove tents from the encampment by 11:30 p.m., may face disciplinary action.