Nationwide, police make almost 2,000 arrests at college campuses since protests started

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Demonstrations — and arrests — have occurred in almost every corner of the nation. At least 1,945 people have been arrested since the protests began.

Police arrested pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses across the country overnight, with officers in riot gear surging against crowds of demonstrators. Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread across campuses nationwide in a student movement unlike any other this century.

late Wednesday arrested 15 people for misdemeanor trespassing late Wednesday after several dozen people pushed inside the lobby of the Lowenstein building at Fordham University’s campus at Lincoln Center. Seventeen people were arrested on criminal trespass charges Wednesday at the University of Texas at Dallas after demonstrators refused to comply with law enforcement orders to remove an encampment from the school’s main walkway, a university spokeswoman said in a statement Thursday.

 

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