Earlier today I wrote about police stepping in to clear another pro-Palestinian encampment, this time at UPenn. But that was one of just one of three camps cleared today.
Tent encampments at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Arizona, Tucson, were all dismantled in early morning raids that saw cordons of police sweep in and clear the makeshift protest settlements. In Tucson teargas was used, and demonstrators responded by throwing bottles at officers…
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, about 100 police officers moved in at 4am on Friday and began clearing the protest site at MIT of tents, tarps and flags. Demonstrators chanted nearby…
Some of the most violent scenes to erupt in the early hours of Friday occurred at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Police fired pepper balls at protesters who carried homemade shields…
