US police arrest 300 pro-Palestine protesters at Columbia University

WORLD, May 02 (YPA)- New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday that police arrested almost 300 protestors at Columbia and City College.

Commenting on the Gaza solidarity protests due to the Zionist war in American universities, he said, “We will protect the city in collaboration with the police from those spreading radicalism among Young people.”

Adams claimed that protesters at Columbia University were being influenced by outside individuals, part of a movement “globally” to “radicalize young people”.

“They were concerned about chaos. It was about external actors hijacking peaceful protests influence students to escalate,” Adams added.

He also announced “the arrest of about 300 people participating in the protests at Columbia University,” claiming that “there were no violent clashes between the police and protesters at Columbia University during the dispersal of the protest.”

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