Police enter Columbia University's Hamilton Hall amid pro-Palestinian protests

NYPD officers in riot gear break into a building at Columbia University, where pro-Palestinian students are barricaded inside a building and have set up an encampment, in New York City on April 30, 2024. (Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images)

New York police entered Hamilton Hall at Columbia University to end a student-led occupation of the building late Tuesday after Columbia University said it was left "with no choice."

A steady stream of officers entered through a second story window using an New York Police Department armored vehicle with a mechanized drawbridge.