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A Pro-Palestinian rally at Brooklyn College broke out on Thursday in chaos, with demonstrators and the police who occupy physical arguments, several people are arrested and one officer who fires a taser to subdue a man in the crowd.
The unmanageable scene followed the arrests of 80 people on Wednesday after Pro-Palestinian protesters had occupied part of the main library of Columbia University, as a result of which university officials were asked To quickly call in the police.
The fast steps to combat the two protests reflect the enormous pressure that colleges feel in the United States of the Trump government to suppress the unrest of Pro-Palestinian campus.
The condition of Brooklyn College started around 6 p.m., while dozens of students and faculty members who had gathered to chant slogans and ordered the actions of Israel in the war in Gaza, left the wrought iron gates of the college.
They were on campus for a few hours by that time. Although tensions had grown all afternoon, when university officials and guards threatened that the protesters were being arrested, the rally seemed to end peacefully. Two of the four tents that someone had set up were removed at the request of the college.
There were some small skirmishes when people went through the gates and officers made a few arrests. The crowd continued before he paused for the Tangier Hillel House of the college, where someone in the group gave a speech to expose the building as a ‘Zionist institution’. Others kept drawing that said, “Israel has no right to exist” and “Save Gaza.”
A few minutes later, officers stepped into the crowd to make more arrests, what people in custody took after beating, kicking or kicking or closed on the floor. It was unclear what the officers led to go aggressively.
One man was quickly surrounded by different officers and put on the ground. One of the officers brought out a taser and pointed it in the direction of the man. A popping sound could be heard and threads dangled out of his pants while officers left him away. Various ambulances arrived.
A police spokesperson said that university officials had asked that the police responded to campus shortly before 5 p.m., a precise number of arrests was not available on Thursday evening. He refused to comment on the physical quarrels or on the apparent use of a taser by the officer.
A spokesperson for Brooklyn College said in a statement that demonstrators had violated university policy by setting up the tents. When the tents were not removed after repeated warnings, the security officers from the City University of New York and the New York City police removed and “the crowd spread,” said the spokesperson, Richard Pietras.
“The safety of our campus community will always be of the utmost importance and Brooklyn College respects the right to protest and at the same time adhere to strict rules that are intended to guarantee the safe operation of our university,” he added.
In an e -mail that was sent to students around 7:30 pm, a university officer said that the campus was closed for the day, that everyone who left could not return on Thursday and that classes may be moved or canceled online that evening.
Emma Grillo contributed reporting.
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