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Up north in Canada things are also heating up on some university campuses. Officials at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, has confirmed that 13 people were arrested on Monday night during protests.
At McGill University in Montreal, campus officials have requested police assistance to help remove an encampment after protesters refused to leave. Six of those individuals were VCU students, the school said.
Like many pro-Palestinian demonstrators, students gathering at McGill's campus are demanding that the university divests from Israeli companies that are "complicit in the occupation of Palestine." VCU officials say protesters violated campus policies and local police declared the protest an unlawful assembly.
McGill president Deep Saini told members of the community that "having to resort to police authority is a gut-wrenching decision for any university president". The university said protestors threw objects and used "chemical spray", on police, and in response campus and area police used tear gas to clear the crowd.
"It is, by no means, a decision that I take lightly or quickly. In the president circumstances, however, I judged it necessary."
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