New York students slam police raid on Columbia University campus
NEW YORK – AFP
Students in New York have condemned the police raid on Columbia University campus by police.
“Columbia and the cops collaborated to brutalize my classmates in the dark for standing up for what is right,” Columbia University student Maryam Alwan said at a news conference alongside other students, a day after New York police removed non-violent protesters from a university building.
“I watched as an EMT pleaded to be allowed to treat students as police laughed and turned off their body cameras and as press were prevented from bearing witness,” said Alwan.
Cameron Jones, another student, said: “Columbia’s surreal response to the protesters’ nonviolent takeover of Hind’s Hall (student protesters renamed the university’s Hamilton Hall after Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl in Gaza who was killed in Israel’s war on Gaza) turned our campus into a war zone. The university called the NYPD to storm campus with militarized police.”
Sueda Polat said the students remained “principled” and “tenacious in the face of police violence, in the face of brutalization, and in the face of bad faith negotiating by their university.”
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