New York police raid Columbia campus andarrest protesters | BBC News

New York City police have entered the ColumbiaUniversity en masse and are arresting students.

The NYPD told the BBC officers have entered HamiltonHall, an academic building recently occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.

The activists had taken over the Hamilton Hall buildingnearly 24 hours earlier amid two weeks of campusprotests over the Israel-Gaza war.

The police were authorised to go in by universityauthorities, after student demonstrators defied a deadline to disperse.