Police responded Wednesday to a request for help from Columbia University after a large group of pro-Palestinian protesters forcibly entered a campus library and declared it a “liberation zone.”
The New York Police Department made 80 arrests, but no charges had been brought as of early Thursday morning, NYPD told The Daily Signal.
“I hope they will face serious consequences for their unlawful actions,” Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said of the protesters in a post on X.
According to Columbia, a significant number of those who took part in the library takeover are believed to be “not affiliated with the University.”
“The anti-Israel movement has metastasized into street thuggery since the Oct. 7 massacre, and the campuses are the epicenter,” Bill Jacobson, founder and publisher of Legal Insurrection and a law professor at Cornell Law…
