good evening. i m james brown in for norah, and we begin tonight with the most intense crackdown yet on the pro-palestinian protests on college campuses in the u.s. nypd video released today shows officers in riot gear moving into arrest people who are barricaded inside a building at columbia university. new york city mayor eric adams is blaming people not affiliated with the ivy league for the mayhem. in manhattan tonight, police are arresting protesters at fordham university s lincoln center campus. students set up an encampment calling on the school to disclose and divest their investments relating to israel. at ucla this afternoon, a more peaceful scene than the brawls that took place overnight between protesters and counterprotesters. a spokesperson for california governor gavin newsom calling the campus police response to the violence delayed, limited, and unacceptable. we have a team of correspondents covering the protests coast-to-coast, beginning with cbs s lilia luc
pro-palestinian protesters from the campus of columbia university in new york. dozens were arrested after ivy league school decided it was finally time to call in the reinforcements. hello, i m jonathan hunt, live in los angeles with continuing coverage of the campus. chaos across country. the situation at columbia escalated about 24 hours ago when the protesters broke into historic hamilton hall building. and just a few hours, officers in riot gear entered that building and swiftly made arrests. columbia university has, of course, been the epicenter for pro-palestinian protests that have now spread to campuses around the country. hundreds of students have been arrested nationwide and upcoming commencements are in danger being canceled. let s get straight to fox news correspondent richardson for the latest on how it all unfolded at columbia. good evening, rick. good evening, jonathan. columbia university is given the all clear after school officials told students to shelt
they should have seen it. anti-israel protesting on campuses across america are not so peaceful after all. explosion of violence and destruction after days of building tension and encampments blew its top. police sweeping in to restore order but many agitators, protestors, students and whoever is there as a big old crowd has vowed they are coming back. so some questions now. how exactly we got here. and to whom do we hold acceptable and how? what about accountability? i can tell you none of it is acceptable. let s find out who is paying for it. i m harris faulkner. you are in the faulkner focus. a look at the chaos, just last night. the university of california los angeles, let s start there. [shouting] harris: protest groups are fighting among themselves. people can get killed like this. we all know that. the adults in the room that the left is talking about. they aren t out there. that s for certain. so as that was going on fireworks ignited people wielding sticks unive
for one purpose, that is to cause serious injury. my for one purpose, that is to cause serious injury- serious in ury. my recollection of what ou serious injury. my recollection of what you said serious injury. my recollection of what you said was serious injury. my recollection of what you said was you serious injury. my recollection of what you said was you were - serious injury. my recollection of. what you said was you were literally on the to you, just sitting on the chin, an altercation started, and somebody had a knife? the tube. yes, unfortunately not that uncommon in london. i think these days it is more prevalent, but london is no stranger to knife crime force that we have a city of 7 million people. there was another stabbing in sheffield. it was with a broken bottle, but there were stabbings, you know, not so much guns, but sharp weapons, they seem to be the weapons of choice just now. i sharp weapons, they seem to be the weapons of choice just now.- wea
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. quot