'You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment,' writes Robin D. G. Kelley in a letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik:

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the same students i taught audre lorde and du bois this semester are now protesting what they see as a grave injustice that no one in power has done anything to stop. how am i supposed to explain to them they were never meant to put anything they learned in class into practice

BREAKING:
NYPD officer at Columbia University texting “thought we fucking shot someone” while on campus outside of Hind Hall. #cu4palestine

incredible that, within mere hours, we witnessed brutal assault by the NYPD on students because of 'outside agitators' while the LAPD stood by as they witnessed brutal assault on students by outside agitators

The NYPD threw a girl down a staircase, knocking her unconscious in front of cameras and with the full permission of the school she pays tuition to, and democrats are here smugly spreading conspiracy theories like trumpers. Don't pretend to care about democracy.

I have covered tons of protests over the years and the cop response to Columbia University tonight was more than I’ve ever seen. It felt like they were using these student protestors as an excuse to play with their military toys.

there shouldnt be this much resistance to saying that a war that has killed over 30,000 civilians and subjected millions to displacement, starvation, and lack of access to medical treatment, which does not seem to be accomplishing any legitimate objectives, is bad and should stop

‼️ALERT ‼️: Legal observers at CCNY were beaten and removed by NYPD’s notoriously violent strategic response group, protesters tasered and pepper sprayed—ALL OUT TO 1PP FOR JAIL SUPPORT

I don't think starting out May Day by sending riot police to brutalize and arrest students and workers at The City University of New York City College is going to end up working the way they want it to.

Okay tactical innovation!!!

.CNN talking about how no one was hurt, and the NYPD was careful. Meanwhile videos like this are all over social media. This one from the IG page of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.

Also reports of officers turning off body cams and then using excessive force against students.

TIL Columbia students held the dean hostage during a protest once and he wasn’t even that mad

At this point, it feels almost like a race to see which of the many many possible problems is going to either sink or revolutionize GAI. Here's noyb's contribution: OpenAI's incorrect outputs violate the GDPR right of correction.
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ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭

the student uprisings of the 1960s were considerably more violent than anything you are seeing today. it is not close. students at kent state burned the ROTC building to the ground. when black students took over a building at cornell in 1969, they did it **with guns**

Go to the encampments. I cannot stress this enough. It doesn’t matter if you don’t go to that university. Go. Take up space. They need you! They need community! They need people to hold space!

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

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.

The WKCR reporters deserve every bit of praise they get but please also give some love to the lone CCNY student reporter covering our police raid on Instagram Live CCNY's The Campus instagram.com/ccnycampus/liv…

i think one thing thats pretty consistent in how we view history is whenever you see a montage of young people in the past protesting, its always the riot cops beating them up that the viewer instinctively aligns themselves with