Thirteen arrested at NYU and 43 at New School, NYPD says, as encampments cleared in downtown Manhattan
Police began clearing out protesters at New York University (NYU) in downtown Manhattan on Friday as pressure continued to build on the city’s mayor, Eric Adams, to divulge more details on identities and affiliations of those within the 282 people arrested at uptown Columbia and City College of New York (CCNY) on Tuesday night – after he blamed “outside agitators” for prompting a crackdown.
Campuses elsewhere were relatively quiet overnight, while the recent weeks of escalated pro-Palestinian protests across more than 40 campuses nationwide have resulted in almost 2,200 arrests, according to an Associated Press tally.
The New York police department (NYPD) deputy commissioner of operations, Kaz Daughtry, posted on X on Friday morning that NYU requested police assistance “to disperse the illegal encampment on their property”. Daughtry said police “are on site”.
Officers arrested 13 protesters at NYU and 43 at the New School on Friday morning, the NYPD said.
On Thursday, the Guardian and other media pushed the NYPD and the mayor to give more details on non-students arrested at protests in New York earlier this week, whom Adams said unduly influenced students in particular at Columbia to occupy a building on campus, which police cleared on Tuesday night.
