How the showdown at Columbia University between protesters and NYPD unfolded
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The first sign that the weekslong standoff at Columbia University was nearing a dramatic finale came after dusk, when New York City police officers clad in riot gear began massing south of the east gate of the venerable Ivy League school. It was around 9 p.m. Tuesday and the pro-Palestinian protesters standing in front of the wrought-iron gate could see the police gathering, and they were defiant. “We will not move. We will not bend,” they chanted. “The occupation has to end.” The protests had...

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