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Starting at around 6 a.m. Tuesday, around 50 police officers enclosed the encampment on Cross Campus with caution tape and announced that anyone in the encampment would be arrested and face “emergency suspension.”
After negotiations between protesters and administration broke down on Monday evening, protesters voted to maintain the encampment amid multiple notices from administrators of possible disciplinary action.
Yale Police officers interrupted a Yale Gospel Choir rehearsal on Monday inside Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall. According to students in the group, the officers said that the police were called about a protest in the building.
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.