NYPD raids short-lived anti-Israel encampment at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus
NY Post
The NYPD cleared out a short-lived anti-Israel encampment at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus on Wednesday at the request of the school, authorities said.
Cops in riot gear entered the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” before 6 p.m. and arrested several demonstrators who refused to leave, according to NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry.
The police action came just hours after the protesters set up the indoor tent city in response to the arrests of hundreds of like-minded demonstrators at Columbia University and the City University of New York on Tuesday night.
The Fordham encampment, which began at around 8 a.m. in the private Jesuit University’s Leon Lowenstein Center building in Manhattan, had steadily dwindled throughout the day from an estimated 30 protesters down to around 12.
But hundreds of others rallied outside the front entrance at the corner of W. 60th Street and 9th Avenue.
Protesters who refused to leave the encampment were notified by the university earlier Tuesday they had been suspended and banned from campus.
