'The Occupation's Got to Go': Protesters Chant After Blocking Door of Columbia University Building

Pro-Palestinian protesters barricaded the door of a building on New York’s Columbia University campus early on Tuesday morning, April 30, after the university began suspending students who had failed to leave an encampment.

A group of people left the encampment on campus just after midnight and entered Hamilton Hall, the New York Times reported.

Footage here by Lama Alarian shows students moving tables close to the main doors and chanting that “the occupation’s got to go.”

Window panes were later smashed to allow a bike lock to be placed around the outer handles of the door.

An NYPD spokesperson told the Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper, that officers were outside of campus but were not entering.

Alarian said that Hamilton Hall was last taken over by students in 1968. Credit: Lama Alarian via Storyful

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