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Nearly Half of Those Arrested at Columbia and CCNY Were Not Students – HotAir

As I mentioned earlier today, there has been a lot of discussion about “outside instigators” at the various Liberated Zones set up on campuses around the country. In general, the left has downplayed or dismissed the idea that the protesters are anything but progressive students. On the other hand, less progressive Democrats seem almost eager to blame what they are seeing on outside forces. 

Today we learned that there may be something to the talk about outside agitators after all. The NYPD has revealed that nearly half of those arrested at Columbia and City College of New York were not affiliated with the school.

Approximately 134 of the 282 people taken into custody at Columbia University and CCNY were not affiliated with either school — more than 47%…

Investigators are looking at the role of outsiders who were on campus in the days before encampment participants shifted to…

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