One of the most frustrating nights for press access i’ve experienced as a reporter. At Columbia & CCNY, police barricaded public streets for blocks, obstructing journalists from seeing what was happening even from a distance. A policy of exclusion cheered on by Eric Adams’ staff

Even more intense than Columbia by all accounts. This is citywide repression.

Taken by Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School, inside campus

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.

As many, including myself, take some time to absorb the events of tonight, there is one thing I am certain of...EVERY decision of Columbia's President Shafik, from the beginning of the protest was extraordinaly bad, escalated everything, & negatively reverbated across the

You quite famously relied on sources to push for the invasion of Iraq that refused to identify themselves publicly. You went to jail for it.

The entire world should be shocked by the level of violence that a Democratic Mayor, Governor, and President are willing to use to stop students from criticizing America’s support for Israel.

.Benny Polatseck, a staffer in Mayor Adams' office, has deleted this tweet.

Two dozen Democratic members of Congress (including savior of democracy Adam Schiff) demanded that Columbia leadership Do Something yesterday and today they’ve turned the campus into a prison. Disgusting

There are campuses that have managed these protests without major incident. The people who decided to help the right-wing thrive are Shafik, Adams, Hochul, and ultimately Joe Biden.

Donald Trump is having a great night

this is on the watch of a democratic mayor, governor, and president. And they expect to convince voters that we need to reelect them in order to stave off authoritarianism? ...How?

the university that administers the Pulitzer Prizes is trying to make sure there is nobody on-site to document what is about to happen

Unbelievable

If any kid is hurt tonight, responsibility will fall on the mayor and univ presidents.

Other leaders and schools have found a safe, de-escalatory path. This is the opposite of leadership and endangers public safety. A nightmare in the making.

I urge the Mayor to reverse course.

listening to these WKCR reporters and I am in awe of their bravery and I am feel so so disgusted by the feckless and morally bankrupt leadership that makes up the American media class

Thinking about David A. Bell's childhood memory of his father the morning after Columbia called the cops on its students, 56 years ago today dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

According to Columbia by-laws, police are not supposed to be allowed on campus without the consent of the faculty. President Shafik does *not* have our approval for this raid; she has not even asked our approval. This promises to be a horrifying dereliction of faculty governance