Brooklyn College protest encampment ordered off campus, arrests made

As college students prepare to wrap up another semester and another year

protests over the war in Gaza are popping up on college campuses. Some making headlines over arrests being made

as police try to disperse the groups of protesters from university grounds

The latest conflict between protesters and police coming from Brooklyn College at a pop-up encampment where cell phone video shows police

giving a verbal warning to protesters to leave, but then being interrupted by pro-Palestinian chants

Tensions! You're currently trespassing and in violation of CUNY Henderson rules. You must disfress immediately

We wait for the rest of us. Autocrats are immediately out. The New York Times reported physical altercations between protesters and police

as officers worked to clear the campus. Some cell phone video online showed officers and protesters on the ground and protesters being pushed back after they were blocking officers and resisted orders to move

Police told the Times they were called in by the college around 5 p.m. Thursday, and at least seven arrests were made, with seven others given orders to appear in court

The college said protesters broke its policy against tents on campus and requested police to disperse the crowd

In a media statement, the college says the safety of our campus community will always be paramount

And Brooklyn College respects the right to protest while also adhering to strict rules meant to ensure the safe operation of our university and prohibit individuals from impeding access to educational facilities

This latest protest outbreak follows another high incident out of Columbia University this week We now learning that of the 80 protesters arrested one out of three are not verified students of Columbia That according to a source who spoke with Fox News That law

enforcement source also says over 60 of the arrests were women. On Wednesday, protesters stormed a

campus library claiming to have renamed the building to Basil El-Araj, the name of a Palestinian

activist seen as a martyr by Palestinians and seen as an alleged terrorist by Israel

accused of plotting attacks against Israel, according to the IDF in 2017, when the man

was killed during a raid. The protesters plastered posters and threw out pamphlets

standing on desks, making pro-Palestinian chants while some students were studying for finals

Columbia, call the NYPD. I walked through the reading room, one of the many jewels of Butler Library

and I saw it defaced and damaged in disturbing ways and with disturbing slogans

Violence and vandalism, hijacking a library, none of that has any place on our campus

These aren't Columbia's values. Let me be clear. Colombia unequivocally rejects anti-Semitism and all other forms of harassment and discrimination

An immigration and customs enforcement official also told Fox News that Homeland Security is

requesting names and fingerprints of the 80 people arrested to check if any of them are here on visas

The Trump administration has already ordered hundreds of student visas to be revoked

over similar participation in these college campus protests that the State Department says

bled into anti-Semitism on college campuses. Those orders out of the country are currently

being challenged in the courts. We'll continue to follow this story, and you can too, by downloading the Straight Arrow News mobile app today