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The disturbing videos show police made no effort to deescalate before killing the 19 year old as he was the midst of a mental-health crisis.
"I’ve done civil disobedience before, but I’ve never seen the police arrest a peaceful group like this. This was like a military formation."
"I think we could have talked about it. But I don't, I don't recall it coming up organically in that press conference," the top NYPD spokesperson said.
At first, it was a peaceful, sometimes whimsical occupation. Then, on April 30, at 2 a.m., the police closed in on the protesters.
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You heard it from Mayor Eric Adams: Do not dishonor this sacred land, for which so many made the ultimate sacrifice, by raising a foreign nation's flag upon our soil, as disrespectful ingrates like Eric Adams.
Just don’t ask New York City’s foremost living performance artist why she does what she does.
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The public deserves a full accounting of what actually happened at Columbia and CCNY, not just the drip-drip of information leaked to national media.
Mayor Eric Adams declared that the violent arrests of hundreds of people at Columbia University and CUNY's City College on Tuesday night were necessary because of "outside agitators," and a global conspiracy to "radicalize young people."
Columbia admin and the NYPD tried to keep the press from seeing Tuesday night's massive raid up close. They didn’t quite succeed.