Columbia did a better job handling the pro-Hamas activists on campus yesterday than it has previously. In the evening nearly 80 students who had refused to identify themselves were arrested. I wanted to follow up on a few loose threads.
NYPD now arresting student protestors from Columbia University library @CBSNewYork pic.twitter.com/DtR1qEPzT9
— Ali Bauman (@AliBaumanTV) May 7, 2025
Hopefully, at some point during booking, the headscarves were removed and mugshots were taken of all of them.
More arrests, lots of them:pic.twitter.com/BdHCfKXJXT
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) May 8, 2025
This guy is fighting with security the whole way out.
To everyone claiming NYPD intervention was “unwarranted”—what do you expect @Columbia to do when protesters endanger their peers? This wasn’t a peaceful demonstration. As Public Safety officers tried to remove…
