Headline Roundup • April 22nd, 2024
Police Break Up Pro-Palestinian Protest on Yale’s Campus, Arrest Over 40
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Police have arrested at least 40 pro-Palestinian protestors on Yale’s campus, according to the school’s police chief.
The Details: Protestors have been camped out for several days, and were issued warnings late Sunday night and early Monday morning. Police dressed in riot gear reportedly warned protestors before beginning to make arrests and cleared the plaza by 8 a.m. local time.
For Context: On Saturday night, a Jewish student journalist reporting on the protests was jabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag by protestors. Last week, the New York Police Department apprehended over 100 protestors at Columbia University.
How The Media Covered It: The story is still developing. As of Monday morning, the New York Post (Lean Right bias) gave context on the assault of the student journalist, whereas CNN (Lean Left bias) and WTNH (Center bias) did not. CNN reported over 40 arrests, while the Post said it wasn’t clear how many were apprehended.
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Police clad in riot gear swarmed Yale University’s Connecticut campus early Monday and started arresting students who had been staging an anti-Israel protest encampment there for several days.
Footage posted online showed cops arriving at the Ivy League school and blocking off entrances to a plaza at the New Haven campus, where roughly 200 protesters had been gathered.
Cops started warning protesters they risked being arrested if they didn’t clear out, the Yale Daily News reported.
Police began making arrests Monday morning after hundreds of Yale University students and New Haven residents attended a pro-Palestinian protest that lasted throughout the weekend outside the Schwarzman Center and Beinecke Plaza area.
Students placed an encampment of tents outside the center where a Board of Trustees meeting was being held with top Yale officials Friday evening.
Students chanted “Shame on them” and “We will not be moved”. There is no word on how long the students will be there.
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At least 40 protesters have been arrested during a pro-Palestinian rally at Yale University in Connecticut, the school’s police chief told the Yale Daily News.
Those arrested face charges of trespassing, a Class A misdemeanor, Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell told the campus news publication. Campbell said those arrested would be released after processing.
The police chief said protesters had been warned twice before the arrests – once at 11 p.m. Sunday night and again Monday morning before 7 a.m.
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