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Columbia protest escalates with campus building takeover - BBC News Students occupying Columbia building face expulsion, university says - BBC News
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Officials at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, has confirmed that 13 people were arrested on Monday night during protests. As we reported a short while ago, Columbia administrators have warned that students currently occupying Hamilton Hall "face expulsion".
Six of those individuals were VCU students, the school said. Protesters who did not comply with the university's deadline to leave their encampment by Monday afternoon at 2 pm local time are already now being suspended.
VCU officials say protesters violated campus policies and local police declared the protest an unlawful assembly. "We made it very clear yesterday that the work of the University cannot be endlessly interrupted by protesters who violate the rules," spokesperson Ben Chang said in a statement shared on the school's website.
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. "Continuing to do so will be met with clear consequences... We gave everyone at the encampment the opportunity to leave peacefully."
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