Dozens were arrested in New York City after swarming the streets to protest the arrest of ‘pro-Hamas’ rioter Mahmoud Khalil.
Student activists staged a sit-in at Columbia University on Tuesday, before nearly hundreds of protestors descended on Washington Square Park, reported CBS News.
The group moved from the park, and marched through Lower Manhattan. Some protesters were arrested at City Hall, although police have not provided a total number of arrests as yet.
The New York Post reported at least a dozen protesters were handcuffed after they blocked the streets and refused to listen to NYPD instructions to clear the road.
‘Move cops, get out the way, we know you’re Israeli trained,’ some protesters chanted. ‘Oink, oink, piggy, piggy. We’re gonna make your lives s****y.’
Images showed keffiyeh clad protesters wearing face coverings march through the streets carrying Palestinian flags.
Khalil, 29, was a graduate student and permanent U.S. resident at the center of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last year.
He was taken into custody at his university-owned apartment on Saturday night by ICE agents.
Dozens were arrested in New York City after swarming the streets to protest the arrest of ‘pro-Hamas’ rioter Mahmoud Khalil
At least a dozen protesters were handcuffed after they blocked the streets and refused to listen to NYPD instructions to clear the road
Images showed keffiyeh clad protesters wearing face coverings march through the streets carrying Palestinian flags
The Department of Homeland Security, confirming Khalil’s arrest on Sunday, claimed he had ‘led activities aligned to Hamas’ and that the DHS action was taken ‘in coordination with the Department of State.’
‘We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it,’ the president wrote Monday on his Truth Social platform.
On Monday, a U.S. district judge ordered that Khalil remain in the U.S. as the court weighs a filing challenging his arrest and deportation. A detention hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
The protests at Columbia, launched last year in opposition to the war in Gaza, brought widespread media attention as tensions mounted on campus and spread to other universities around the country.
