Posted on 04/29/2024 1:57:57 PM PDT by lightman
Columbia University failed to bring disruptive anti-Israel protests under control Monday, as hundreds of protesters openly defied the school’s 2 p.m. ultimatum to vacate the campus encampment or face suspension and loss of access to dorms and class buildings.
“We will not back down,” student leaders proclaimed in a statement before the deadline expired.
As the deadline ticked away, hundreds of protesters remained on campus, beating drums and chanting slogans like “free, free, free Palestine” as they marched, beat drums and lounged around the tent city.
Police sources told The Post Monday afternoon that busloads of NYPD officers were standing by if summoned by the university. However, administrators had not asked cops to move in to remove students from the $90,000-per-year campus as it did April 18, during which 108 demonstrators were dragged away in cuffs.
Cops are not allowed on campus without authorization from the university.
In a statement to the student body Monday morning, embattled Columbia president Minouche Shafik made a final plea with student protesters to “voluntarily disperse” from campus, vowing to consider exploring “alternative internal options” to bring the crisis to a close.
[President]Shafik made clear that the protesters’ main demand — that the university divest from all companies that do business with Israel — was off the table.
The school also distributed notices around campus promising students amnesty from punishment if they turn themselves in to officials by the deadline and commit to obeying university policies...
According to the Columbia Spectator newspaper, students slapped with an interim suspension for flouting the deadline will be restricted from using all of Columbia’s “campuses, facilities and property, including all academic, residential and recreational spaces.” Students gather for a rally in support of a protest encampment on campus in support of Palestinians, despite a 2pm deadline.
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Why don’t we give them to Mongo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28khv-BydeY
Use the “Esther” defense. Arms the Jews and let them take care of the problem.
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Yep
Columbia's leadership have already decreed that since Columbia is private property, local law enforcement has no jurisdiction.
I'll be John Wayne Gacy wishes he knew about this particular loophole.
Kent State happened on 04May1970. Next is 04May.
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Live
UT protest. Kids screaming for medics and water. Off our campus!
Shoot the b@$t@rd$!
In the old days students protested the war.
These days they are not protesting the war, just our ally.
There’s a distinction.
“Help, Help, I’m being repressed!”
-PJ
Have some farmers spray some liquid manure fertilizwr!
Four was too few, and on top of that they shot the wrong ones! Not a single movement leader was harmed.
Someone’s gonna get hurt before this is through.
Bloody peasant!
-PJ
Oh, what a giveaway.
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