Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested at Yale University in Connecticut on Monday, police said, making for another law enforcement crackdown on an anti-Israel demonstration at an Ivy League school in the past week.
Anthony Campbell, the chief of the Yale Police Department, told the Yale Daily News that 40-45 people had been detained and charged with trespassing, a Class A misdemeanor.
Police had warned the protesters on Sunday night that they would be arrested if they did not vacate Yale’s Beinecke Plaza where they had set up tents, Campbell added.
Meanwhile, hundreds of protesters blocked off a local intersection, but a New Haven police officer told the Yale Daily News that there were no plans for arrests so long as there was “no violence or threats or anything like that.”
The more than 300 protesters continue…
