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Unsurprisingly, some of the students/activists out at Stony Brook were running a Pro-Palestinian demonstration/encampment on campus.
...Protest leaders and university administrators had reached an impasse before campus police along with New York State Troopers and Suffolk County police officers moved in after a deadline for demonstrators to leave passed at 11 p.m.
Administration officials had earlier agreed to meet Thursday with the student leaders but also threatened them with possible expulsion if they remained on the grassy common.
About a dozen protesters had remained camped out as the deadline passed. Another roughly 100 demonstrators who left the immediate area to avoid getting arrested formed a perimeter around the smaller group. Others began clearing out supplies that had been spread out in the encampment.
Chants of “Free Palestine” and “We Will Not Stop, We Will Not Rest” echoed across the common as about two dozen police officers kept watch.
Just before midnight Wednesday, officers began yelling out to the protesters that they had to leave. As the officers moved closer, the protesters backed away but repeated their chants.
About 30 of them then locked arms. The police approached and took them into custody, eliciting angry shouts of protest in an otherwise tense but mostly peaceful scene.
Separately, the 100 or so demonstrators on the perimeter continued chanting, some yelling anti-police slogans.
“Let Them Go! Let Them Go!” several protesters yelled as they stood 10 feet from a line of police officers positioned in front of the university library.
In a statement early Thursday, university officials said among the 29 people arrested were "students, faculty members and others from outside our campus community for violating various legal statutes and university policies. What began as a peaceful demonstration escalated to include intimidation and harassment of other students and the erection of tents in violation of the University’s clearly stated policy. University administrators made every effort to avert this outcome."
Glad they shut it down this is getting crazy and it solves nothing. Palestine and Israel have been fighting this war for hundreds of years. what makes anyone think protesting is going to end this all.
I am all for peaceful protesting. But this is over the top destruction, and interfering with students education. Enough is enough. I would deport anyone who is not an American citizen. This is not fair to both Jewish and non Jewish students who are preparing for finals.
I’m all for free speech & the constitution. 100%, even if it’s something I don’t support.
But…
When the protesting disrupts peoples lives, or gets violent, then it’s game over.
Tear gas ‘em, hit ‘em with the water cannons, whatever. Then lock them up.
I’m all for free speech & the constitution. 100%, even if it’s something I don’t support.
But…
When the protesting disrupts peoples lives, or gets violent, then it’s game over.
Tear gas ‘em, hit ‘em with the water cannons, whatever. Then lock them up.
Add to the punishment of forcing them to read old city-data threads.
Add to the punishment of forcing them to read old city-data threads.
Just my posts alone is torture.
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