NYPD Deploys to Columbia University as Gaza Solidarity Encampment Cleared
A column of NYPD officers marches across the intersection of Broadway and West 116th Street, directly outside Columbia University’s main gates, on the afternoon of April 18, 2024. Metal crowd-control barricades line the perimeter as onlookers, students, and members of the press watch from the sidewalk near Miller Theatre and the steps leading up to campus. Hundreds of students mass on the lawn in front of Butler Library earlier that day, the names of Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and others inscribed on the facade above them....