The police crackdown came hours after university officials threatened to expel protesting students who had occupied a key university building.
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Police officers entered Columbia University’s campus and detained dozens of people late on Tuesday night in a crackdown on pro-Palestinian protestors who had barricaded themselves inside a key university building.Key Facts
New York Police Department officers entered Columbia’s Hamilton Hall by breaching one of its second-floor windows, and then led the protestors out with their hands bound in zip ties and boarded them onto a bus.