On Monday, after nearly two weeks of students creating protest encampments in support of Hamas, the terrorist organization in Gaza, and after hundreds of arrests and exhausted efforts to negotiate, Columbia University administrators gave the demonstrators a deadline to voluntarily vacate their tent city, threatening suspensions.
As the 2 p.m. deadline came and went, nothing was done to clear the encampments, as protest organizers vowed not to back down, saying they would only be removed by force.
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Overnight, the situation escalated when Hamilton Hall was taken over by force with protesters breaking windows, preventing the building’s prior occupants from freely leaving…
