NYPD: Oh yeah, did we forget to say we fired a gun at Columbia?

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I think the candidates should be required to do a tight five

'The Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk. . . . '

Think of the children! No, not those children. No, not them, either. No,

As she tried to break free, one UCLA student journalist said, she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.
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For the last few years, was almost as though 'militia' became a dirty word...but that seems to be changing.

I have a story in WIRED today about how militias, after laying low since Jan 6, have been quietly re-organizing and rebuilding on Facebook.

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Security guards hired by UCLA retreated and hid inside a building last night as counter-protesters attacked a pro-Palestine encampment.

They refused to let anyone else inside, including UCLA student journalists covering the events, Daily Bruin reports:
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At the press conference this morning, the NYPD and mayor are continuing to lean hard on an 'outside agitator narrative,' but appear unable to say that any of the nearly 400 people they arrested at Columbia and City College last night were anything other than students.

Five to six assailants also sprayed reporters with an irritant. As some reporters went to help a reporter that was pulled to the ground, assailants began to record on their cellphones.

Shortly before 3:30 a.m., four Daily Bruin reporters were walking on campus when they were followed and then assaulted.

In the center of campus now devoid of students and filled instead with hundreds of police officers, the NYPD's leadership raised the American flag, to the cheers of police in riot gear.

A dispatch from a dark night at City College for Hell Gate *subscribe today!*.

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This is how I learned Auster participated in the Columbia protests in 1968, from his obituary after he died today in the midst of another massive protest and police presence there.
History has an eerie way of echoing off itself nytimes.com/2024/04/30/boo…

You may well have the unusual situation of the Columbia student radio station being eligible for a Pulitzer Prize, administered by Columbia University, for the station’s coverage of how Columbia called the cops on Columbia students. (They’re doing an extraordinary job).

Arrests at City College as police attempt to clear sidewalk in front of college gates.

Student journalists and faculty reportedly threatened with arrest if they leave Pulitzer Hall -- a week before Columbia is scheduled to host the Pulitzer awards in that very building

according to WKCR the NYPD threatened to arrest jelani cobb -- the dean of the journalism school -- if he left the j-school building.

NEW:

Hell Gate has now obtained video of NYPD officers getting a 'refresher course' on how to drive MTA buses they commandeered to take protesters to jail last week...and then drove over the Brooklyn Bridge (exceeding the bridge's weight limit).

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