Northwestern University students build encampment on Deering Meadow in pro-Palestinian protest

ABC7 Chicago Digital TeamThe encampment at Northwestern began on Thursday, just a day after students were arrested in Texas, California following pro-Palestinian protests.Northwestern University pro-Palestinian students began setting up an encampment on campus grounds on Thursday.This comes as dozens of students were arrested across the country in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Police arrested 93 people on and around the University of Southern California campus, mostly on misdemeanor trespass Wednesday night.A rally by pro-Palestinian demonstrators turned chaotic at USC's Alumni Park, as police confronted protesters who attempted to set up an encampment on campus. Last week, USC canceled the valedictorian's speech out of safety concerns considering her pro-Palestinian views, sparking backlash. The student, Asna Tabassum, is a first-generation South Asian-American Muslim who majored in biomedical engineering and minored in resistance to genocide, according to a statement published through the Greater LosAt the University of Texas in Austin, police aggressively detained dozens protesting the Israel-Hamas.

The actions across the U.S. came after Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police earlier in the day.

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