UCLA, Columbia protests reach tipping point with 300 arrested in New York

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May 1, 2024 at 1:13 PM

Violence erupted between police and student protesters Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with hundreds arrested in New York. The New York City Police Department went through a second-story window at a Columbia building that had been seized by demonstrators and cleared out the protesters, with video of the arrests quickly going viral on social media.

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