Police storm Yale University’s campus with riot gear as hundreds of students stage anti-Israel protest
Emily CranePolice clad in riot gear early Monday started swarming Yale University’s Connecticut campus, where hundreds of students have been staging an anti-Israel protest.
Footage posted online showed cops arriving at the Ivy League school and blocking off entrances to a plaza at the New Haven campus where roughly 200 protesters were gathered.
Cops have started warning protestors they risk being arrested if they don’t clear out, the Yale Daily News reported.
It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone had been arrested yet.
The situation comes after protests at Yale turned violent over the weekend when a Jewish student journalist reporting on the encampment, which was erected Friday, was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag Saturday night.
Sahar Tartak, editor-in-chief of the Yale Free Press, was covering the protest when she was suddenly surrounded by demonstrators.
“There’s hundreds of people taunting me and waving the middle finger at me, and then this person waves a Palestinian flag in my face and jabs it in my eye,” Tartak told The Post.
“When I tried to yell and go after him, the protesters got in a line and stopped me.”
Yale president Peter Salovey sent students an email late Sunday warning the school “will pursue disciplinary actions according to its policies” amid the ongoing demonstrations.
“Many of the students participating in the protests, including those conducting counterprotests, have done so peacefully. However, I am aware of reports of egregious behavior, such as intimidation and harassment, pushing those in crowds, removal of the plaza flag, and other harmful acts,” he wrote.
“Yale does not tolerate actions, including remarks, that threaten, harass, or intimidate members of the university’s Jewish, Muslim, and other communities.
“The Yale Police Department is investigating each report, and we will take action when appropriate, including making referrals for student discipline.”
The arrival of cops comes after more than 100 protesters were cuffed and hauled away when the NYPD was called in to clear out a similar protest at Columbia University last week.
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Police storm Yale University’s campus with riot gear, arrest students as hundreds stage anti-Israel protest
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