“I am a student who got my GED, grew up homeless, and grew up in the social services system. I relied on my work study to supplement my income.”

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NOW: NYPD Assistant Chief Carlos Valdez says the ESU sergeant who fired his weapon during the raid of Columbia's Hamilton Hall did so unintentionally while trying to gain access to a locked office.

At the time the gun was fired into the office, officers did not know if any…

Prior to making arrests at #Columbia_University NYPD cleared nearly all journalists from the area, then threatened me and other members of the press with arrest.

PLEASE CREDIT YOUR SOURCES. Describing hard work done by independent journalists or small news agencies as 'video found online' or 'video posted online' is disrespectful of the work that independent journalists do. The work that you use for your reporting.

What I witnessed tonight is like nothing I have ever seen in my life. Complete lawlessness, anarchy, body’s dragged away after scuffles, blood, mace after mace after mace spray, fires, explosives, the list goes on. The school and the city failed the students tonight. Insanity.

#BREAKING MASS ARRESTS as NYPD pour hundreds of cops inside Columbia University, Raiding Encampment

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More scenes from tonight’s protest at WashU. An email from the university says that more than 80 individuals were arrested and will face trespassing charges.

New School freshman named Noah faced off with a line of riot gear-clad NYPD officers. After the crowd of students chanted “Please step back” in an attempt to reclaim the plaza, NYPD officers appeared to step back before charging the students. #nyu #nyu arrests

Extremely disturbing footage. Atlanta cops tasing a restrained student protester at Emory university minutes ago.

NYPD Pepper sprays press and demonstrators as the demonstrators attempt to block the police bus carrying those arrested from the NYU encampment.

#BREAKING Clashes and battles over tents - MASS ARRESTS at the NYU, 'Liberated Zone' encampment tents REMOVED as massive ammount of police continues to clear out the protesters.

This is happening right now.
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Commencement preparations at #ColumbiaUniversity continue as supporters of Palestine remain in the protest encampment at the University’s West Lawn.

Staff and faculty of #ColumbiaUniversity and #barnard form a human chain to prevent pro-Israel professor Shai Davidai from entering the Gaza solidarity encampment on campus. Previously, #shaidavidai circulated a flyer calling on ID holders to enter the encampment.

#BREAKING 'Leave the press alone!' - crowd starts chanting as police appeared en mass outside of Columbia University and pushed the press 500 feet.

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#NOW Police raid Columbia University Lawn after Pro-palestine 'Liberated Zone' encampment stays put and refuses to disperse until all of their demands are met.

#NOW 'Liberated Zone' Pro-palestine encampment has been completely cleared and students are now rallying on the lawns of Columbia University

I’m bewildered that (other than WaPo) no mainstream media has touched the story of a former militia member, now in federal custody, whose own militia blew the whistle on him after he walked out of a “secure government facility” with bomb making documents from “his work computer.”

Video shared by a protester appears to show NYPD Deputy Chief Timothy Beaudette responding to a verbal taunt by striking another protester in the head with a walkie talkie. I don’t know what went down before or after this.

#BREAKING Mass Arrests on Brooklyn Bridge as pro-palestine protesters marched onto the roadway, shutting it down and lighting flares.

Today nationwide protest shut down traffic, highways and bridges across the US.

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#NOW Police arrest Pro-palestine protester and carry him out during a WOL Demonstration on Wall Street.

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