Classes cancelled at Emerson after arrests at pro-Palestinian encampment

Emerson College canceled classes Thursday after more than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in an alleyway where they had been camping out on Emerson College’s downtown Boston campus. An Emerson spokesperson confirmed the cancellation but declined to provide a statement from the school on the 108 arrests. Boston police began taking the pro-Palestinian protesters into custody around 1:45 a.m. Thursday at an encampment established by the student organization Students for Justice in Palestine in the Boylston Place alleyway in downtown Boston. The protesters were set to face a “series of...