[Insurrection...] NYPD Officer Fired Gun Inside Columbia's Hamilton Hall, Manhattan DA's Office Confirms

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-officer-fired-gun-columbia-
hamilton-hall-raid/

An officer inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall Tuesday evening to
break up a Pro-Palestinian demonstration fired his gun, in an incident
that is now under review by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s
office a spokesperson confirmed Thursday evening.

The gun fired did not appear to be aimed at anyone and no one was injured,
said Doug Cohen, a spokesperson for Bragg’s office confirmed in response
to an inquiry from THE CITY, adding that the office’s Police
Accountability Unit is reviewing the shooting, which it does as a matter
of policy.

Cohen said no students and only police officers were in the immediate
vicinity when the shooting occurred.

Rumors of the shooting had quickly spread among students, but had not been
confirmed until Thursday. A video posted to X by student Columbia Students
for Justice in Palestine Tuesday night showed a police officer texting
“thought we fucking shot someone.”

The gun discharge is the latest revelation about the highly militarized
NYPD action to break up a Pro-Palestinian student demonstration at the
campus that been going on since April 17.

In multiple television and radio appearances, as well as a press
conference Wednesday morning, Mayor Eric Adams praised the NYPD’s
“precision policing” and made no mention of the shooting.

During the raids at Columbia and City College, police blocked press access
almost entirely, though they released a highly edited, flashy video of
dozens of officers storming the Ivy League campus, breaking through
barricaded doors and locks of the occupied hall, where demonstrators had
barricaded themselves into early Tuesday morning.

In one shot, officers entered a room in Hamilton Hall with weapons drawn.

The video also shows officers using “flash-bangs,” or stun grenades.

“It’s pretty unusual to use flash-bangs for something like this absent
some intel about a serious threat to officers,” said a veteran law-
enforcement official.

“I’ve never seen them used for search warrants involving guns, let alone
some barricaded college kids.”

A spokesperson for the NYPD didn’t immediately return a request for
comment. Ben Chang, a spokesperson for Columbia University, declined to
comment, deferring to the NYPD.

A spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams didn’t return a request for comment
immediately.

‘A Military Operation’
Columbia University had first called police in to clear student
demonstrators calling for the university to divest from Israel on April
18, with more than 100 arrests.

In the following days, as another even larger encampment of students grew
in an adjacent lawn, sparking similar protests at universities nationwide,
President Minouche Shafik expressed reluctance to involve police again.

That changed when a splinter group of demonstrators barricaded themselves
inside Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning, which she said gave the
university “no choice” but to involve police again.

Even before the raids, Adams and other top NYPD officials had begun
blaming “outside agitators” for fomenting protests on college campuses,
with limited evidence to back that claim.

On Thursday evening, City Hall released a breakdown of those arrested in
campus protests at Columbia and City College of New York it said were
“unaffiliated” with those schools, saying those people, who the mayor has
called “agitators,” accounted for nearly 30% of the 112 demonstrators
arrested at Columbia and 60% of those arrested by City College.

Shayoni Mitra, a senior lecturer at Barnard College who met students upon
their releases late Wednesday night into Thursday morning, relayed their
accounts of being roughed up.

They said that included a student who was pushed down stairs not receiving
medical attention for over an hour in the midst of what students described
as something that “felt like a military operation,” and an account of an
officer who “threw flash grenades across [a] barrier without any sense of
how many were behind it including undergraduates.”

While the lesser charges most people were arrested on have to reach an
arraignment within 24 hours under the city’s protocol, Cohen, the
spokesperson for Bragg’s office, blamed the long delays on delays in
arrest paperwork from the City College Police Department that the DA
needed before initiating the arraignments.

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://abc7ny.com/campus-protests-dozens-arrested-as-nypd-clears-out-
demonstrations-at-nyu-new-school/14759914/

GREENWICH VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Dozens of people were arrested
Friday morning when the NYPD cleared out protests at NYU and The New
School in Greenwich Village.

Of the 56 arrests, 43 were made at The New School and 13 at NYU.

NYU and The New School, in separate statements, both said they requested
police to move students from their campuses after multiple rounds of
negotiations failed.

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell and Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry told
Eyewitness News that both schools authorized actions late Thursday night.

"We gave them the option to leave multiple times," Chell said. "We gave
them what the options were in terms of summonses, desk appearance
tickets."

New School President Donna Shalala said in a letter Friday morning that
she asked the NYPD to clear demonstrators because they had begun blocking
access to one of the dorms on campus.

"Yesterday, for the third time, we offered a meeting with representatives
of the Investment Committee and the students said no -- even though we
provided a confirmed date this month for the Investment Committee to
consider a vote on disinvestment," Shalala wrote.

The NYPD met overnight to begin planning the 6 a.m. operations.

Before the arrests, students at The New School were seen occupying the
lobby with signs and tents. Officers with protective gear moved in as some
protesters screamed.

Students there told Eyewitness News they weren't leaving until their
demands were met as they are calling on the institution to divest from
Israeli-related entities.

The New School switched to remote learning for Friday as students have
continued to set up in the lobby of the University Center building and
block access to the "residence hall, classrooms, library, and cafeteria."

Over at NYU, students had occupied an outside corridor filled with tents
and signs. A professor there said police moved in early Friday morning
when many protesters in the corridor were sleeping.

NYU said the "encampment had become increasingly untenable for the NYU
community and the neighborhood we inhabit."

The arrests Friday morning came days after hundreds were arrested at
Columbia and City College. Of the 282 arrested, police say nearly half
were not affiliated with either school.

Meanwhile, amid the chaos of the Hamilton Hall occupation at Columbia
University on Tuesday evening, the NYPD says an officer unintentionally
fired a shot in the building.
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