More than 2,500 arrested in pro-Palestinian protests at US universities

The university protests against the war in the Gaza Strip have left more than 2,500 people detained, a movement that has a new front opened in Chicago, U.Swhere the university warned students that the camp “cannot continue” and that they should vacate as soon as possible.

“I said we would only intervene if, what could have been an exercise of freedom of expression, blocked the learning or expression of others or substantially disrupted the operation or security of the university. Without an agreement to end the camp, we have reached this point.”stated the president of the institution, Paulo Alivisatos.

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Following the president’s announcement, a group of protesters carrying American flags clashed with pro-Palestinian college students on campus.

O University of Chicago It was more permissive of the protest than many others in the country, as it is part of a tradition of favoring freedom of expression on its premises.

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According to local media, hundreds of students were still camping despite the president’s warning, while the police presence increased.

This situation is experienced the day after the President of the United States, Joe Bidenwelcomed the speech that called the protests that were overwhelmingly peaceful violent and anti-Semitic.

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In one of the operations with the most arrests, that of Columbia University, at the beginning of the week, an agent shot “accidentally” his weapon, as the New York Police acknowledged this Friday.

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According to the official version, the agent broke the glass of a window of the building he was trying to enter and changed his service weapon when he was fired, the bullet hitting the ground.

Precisely in New Yorkepicenter of protests across the country, the Police evicted this Friday another two camps of pro-Palestinian students, one at New York University (NYU) with 13 detainees and the other at The New School, in an operation that resulted in 43 detainees .

Source: Elcomercio

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