Early Tuesday morning, a protester on the campus of Columbia University announced that Hamilton Hall “is now liberated” and indeed renamed to honor a Palestinian child killed in Gaza. By Tuesday night, the building had been “liberated” again, this time by dozens of officers with the New York City Police Department – a show of force that came after Mayor Eric Adams alleged, without providing evidence, that the building had been occupied by “professional outside agitators.”
Columbia University echoed the “agitators” claim in a statement justifying the raid, which resulted in dozens of arrests.
