The action began around daybreak Tuesday as campus police surrounded the university’s main quadrangle. According to live reports from the scene, the police were keeping students from entering the quad.
Police began clearing out a pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of the University of Chicago early Tuesday, taking down tents and setting up barricades to keep protesters away.
The action began around daybreak as campus police surrounded the university’s main quadrangle. According to live reports from the scene, the police were keeping students from entering the quad.
There were no immediate reports of arrests, but work crews could be seen dismantling tents and loading them and other items onto trucks.
UChicago United organizers set up the encampment a little more than a week ago — joining hundreds of other students across the country — to express support for the Palestinian people and to call on the university to disclose its financial investments and to divest from “death in Gaza, the South Side and beyond.
