Unleash the litigation gates! These universities calling the police on their students will be in litigation for years. And those costs don't include the $ NYC is bleeding paying for these cops.:
AFTER RAIDS, NYPD DENIED STUDENT PROTESTERS WATER AND FOOD IN JAIL
STUDENTS ARRESTED DURING the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
"The NYPD’s New Sizzle Reels Aren’t Just Dumb. They’re Dangerous"
This is police propaganda "to justify crackdowns..on dissent while allowing police to portray themselves as heroic."
NYC Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly referred to "professional outside agitators", as police pointed to protestors' supplies: "We got water..supplies..cups..this is very, very organized... There is definitely a mastermind behind this.”
An anti-Israel student group at #Columbia Law School sent a threatening email on Friday telling #Jewish students that they will be neither "safe" nor "free" until "everyone is safe" and "Palestine is free."
The National Lawyers Guild chapter that defended #Hamas#Oct7 attack, put out a statement condemning school for calling in #NYPD to clear out occupied building.
The statement told #Jews that they are not safe & accused Jewish students who oppose divestment of threatening everyone's safety.
While this report by @guardian could be improved by refraining from describing deputized, state-sanctioned violence as "anarchy" and playing into the statist "anarchy = violent chaos" trope, this is otherwise good reporting which you won't find anywhere in the NYT these days.
"The #NYPD is stepping up patrols outside #synagogues and other houses of worship across the city, after more than 20 synagogues received #bomb threats this past weekend. No #bombs were found in any of the buildings."
“The next night, on Tuesday, the 64-year-old silver-haired scholar stepped outside his apartment building, located off campus across the street from Columbia. He wanted to record iPhone video of hundreds of #police responding to historic student protests against #Israel’s war in #Gaza. Fifteen minutes later, the #NYPD arrested him ….
But Pflugfelder was never on campus ….
Pflugfelder's arrest … is among the first of 282 people put in custody at or near #Columbia”
Arrest of journalist Olga Fedorova (Alex Kent, New York, May 8 2024) (kbin.earth)