'We had to do something': NYC mayor cites 'outside agitators', student safety as reason for arrests

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Nearly 100 people were arrested tonight at Columbia University as NYPD officers cleared Hamilton Hall, which had been taken over, and a tent encampment that students established to protest the war in Gaza. NYC Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard discuss.