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Less than 24 hours after the NYPD cleared the original Gaza Solidarity Encampment and arrested more than 100 students, Columbia protesters had already reoccupied the lawn in front of Butler Library. By dusk on April 19, the new encampment on West Butler Lawn was fully established. A large banner reading “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” stretched across its center, flanked by Palestinian flags. Handmade signs reading “Join Us,” “Stop Bombing,” and calls for the university to divest from companies tied to the war in Gaza were laid across the grass....

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....