Has City Hall never witnessed a legislative oversight hearing in the Council, the state Legislature, Congress or student government? The speaker is obviously not going to open this investigation...

At the Christian Cultural Center on the NYC Day of Prayer on Thursday, @nycmayor returned to familiar territory. He defined himself as a 'prayer warrior' and said a prayer warrior acts as a 'vessel that allows God to operate through.'

And an important note on the language being used by NYPD - “affiliated doesn’t mean current OR full time student”

The NYPD determined the data by cross checking records with the schools, the official said.

Broken down by school the numbers skew a bit differently - 80 people arrested at Columbia did “have an affiliation” with the university, while only 32 did not, according to the official.

New: Of the 282 arrested at Columbia University and City College of NY, 134 were not “affiliated” with either school.

The remaining 148 did have an affiliation, according to a NYPD official who shared the breakdown with CNN.

.Mayor Eric Adams says around 40% of protesters at Columbia were not students, the first concrete number we’ve heard to back up the mayor’s claims that outside agitators had co-opted the demonstrations there

On Mayor Eric Adams’s claim of outside agitators, by Joe Anuta and Irie Sentner:

politico.com/news/2024/05/0…

. NEW: A city Department of Investigation probe of mayoral adviser Timothy Pearson has been expanded to include his role in NYPD personnel and promotional matters raised in in two lawsuits accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation.

nydailynews.com/2024/05/01/doi…

Police largely obstructed journalists from seeing what was happening in and around Columbia University last night. It was hard to watch student reporters from WKCR-FM NY Columbia Daily Spectator Columbia Journalism get locked outside the campus gates or inside certain buildings.