The NYPD arrested more than 100 protesters at New York University — including students and faculty — on Monday night and cleared out a campus encampment set up earlier by anti-Israel demonstrators.
Cops in riot gear cuffed the protesters – who are demanding NYU divest from holdings tied to Israel over the ongoing violence in Gaza — with zip ties and led them to police buses, the university’s student-run newspaper Washington Square News reported.
NYU faculty members linked arms and stood side-by-side to form a human barrier between a swarm of cops and student protesters, according to a video shared by a City reporter. The professors were the first to be arrested.
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