Police officers have arrested protesters who had set up an encampment on Yale University’s campus in support of the Palestinian cause Monday morning.
Protesters had been on their third night of camping out in an effort to urge Yale to divest from military weapons manufacturers, the Yale Daily News reported.
Officers gathered at the protest site at Beinecke Plaza shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, seen approaching the encampment and “flipping up the entrances to the tents,” the school paper wrote on X.
Then officers issued a warning for students and press to leave, or they’d be arrested.
Minutes later, the school paper wrote on X that police were arresting people. Yale Police Lt. Roosevelt Martinez told the paper that students involved in the protests were arrested for trespassing, and those arrested were being transported in shuttles for “processing.”
It’s not clear exactly how many people and students were arrested, but the Yale Daily News counted at least 35 people.
By 8 a.m., no students were left on the plaza and all protesters remaining on the plaza had been arrested.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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