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  • Police arrest more Gaza protesters at University of Texas-Austin

    Republican governor says on social media ‘no encampments will be allowed’ as videos show police using pepper sprayProtesters who returned to the University of Texas at Austin on Monday were greeted by dozens of law enforcement officers, many in riot gear. At least 43 protesters were arrested as police and campus security used pepper spray and flash-bang charges on the crowd.The Republican governor, Greg Abbott, on social media reposted video of troopers arriving on the 50,000-student campus. “No...

  • Dozens arrested at Columbia University as New York police disperse Gaza protest

    NYPD officers move on to campus on Tuesday evening to clear out Hamilton Hall building taken over by protestersUS campus protests – live updatesDozens of students have been arrested after hundreds of New York City police officers entered Columbia University on Tuesday night to clear out an academic building that had been taken over as part of a pro-Palestinian protest.Live video images showed police in riot gear marching on the campus in upper Manhattan, the focal point of nationwide student...

  • Police clash with students and make arrests at Texas university as Gaza war campus protests grow

    By JIM VERTUNO, ACACIA CORONADO and NICK PERRY Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police bulldozed into student protesters at a Texas university Wednesday, arresting over a dozen people including a local news photographer, while new student encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges in part of a growing wave of pro-Palestinian protests. As universities