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NYPD raid Columbia University and arrest protesters after hall occupied - BBC News New York police arrest dozens as protesters cleared from Columbia campus - BBC News
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Alex Lederman This video released by the NYPD shows officers crowding the narrow staircase inside the building and removing barriers like chairs.
Reporting from Columbia University
I was in the middle of interviewing a student who had been at Hamilton Hall earlier tonight when an officer interrupted, shutting the windows so she could no longer talk to me.
She had just been describing how police had manhandled students during arrests, including pushing people down stairs.
"There was someone unconscious on the floor getting arrested and then they were pulled away while they were unconscious."
"Three people were pushed down the stairs by the NYPD".
Earlier she had been at Hamilton Hall when "about 80-100" police officers stormed the building, adding that they had driven many protesters out to another building - a residential hall - on campus.
"They barricaded the doors and
had about 2 or 3 offiicers stationed in each door so we couldn’t get out -which
is illegal in its own," she told me.
We'll have the whole video interview for you to see shortly.
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