🏳️‍⚧️ High Plains Grifter: “‘Brutal’ is the only way I can describe what I saw” —WKCR reporter on video she saw of student arrests

NYPD is barricading the occupied building, kettling the surrounding yard, and escorting press off the premises, per Columbia U radio Horrifying

Holy shit, NYPD barricaded the doors to the occupied hall and is using a lift to enter the building from upper floors, per Columbia U radio WHAT THE FUCK

The student reporters keep reporting that the NYPD is making nonsensical demands to “get inside or get off the premises,” despite there not being anywhere to go

NYPD is pulling students from the entrance of the hall and throwing them?? The audio keeps cutting out

All protesters have allegedly been removed from the occupied hall

The Columbia U radio host can’t reach the reporters that were at the occupied hall

There is an unconscious student on the ground in front of the formerly occupied hall, per Columbia U radio; unclear what happened They also say tear gas was used, unclear whether it was interior, exterior, or both

“Our access and mobility is incredibly limited right now” —Columbia U radio reporter, re: NYPD

Columbia U radio now broadcasting on Instagram Live because their website is crashing: www.instagram.com/wkcr_oncampu...

“‘Brutal’ is the only way I can describe what I saw” —WKCR reporter on video she saw of student arrests

There were only between 20 and 50 protesters in the occupied hall, per WKCR; the numbers of police present are far, far higher than that

WKCR reporter is now reading an official Columbia U statement defending the decision to call in riot cops on the basis that they needed to "restore safety and order to our community"

This is all so unbelievably fucked up

This Columbia U statement reads like boilerplate fascist agitprop

NYPD is currently pulling students off the ground ("quite violently, I might add" the reporter says) into Corrections vans, per WKCR

Wow— WCKR points out that the administration has STILL not made ANY communications directly to students about these arrests, and there was no warning of the police invasion

It’s how an abuser speaks

Yup

100%. "Look what they made us do."

man what are the city/uni doing

In their eyes, revenge for 2020

I mean the cops yeah, the uni is just...Shafik doesn't really seem to want to run an academic institution

If even one of those kids has a fentanyl patch on them, hundreds of cops will die instantly you monster

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