Police cleared the last remaining pro-Palestinian encampment in New York City at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Chelsea overnight into Wednesday.
About 50 protesters were taken into custody as cops broke up the demonstration outside the art and design school, part of the State University of New York system. Some of the arrestees started at a protest in Union Square Park before marching to the W 27th St. campus.
“You are currently participating in an unauthorized encampment. Gather your belongings, disperse from the breezeway, leave the campus immediately,” cops warned before students were arrested and put onto an NYPD bus, an Instagram story video shows.
The tent city was up for 13 days, students said.
Ahead of the arrests, students posted on Instagram they were suspended for “non-discriminatory harassment” and school policy violations related to food and drinks.
Photojournalist Olya Federova was taken into custody during the protest last night but the arrest was voided and she was set free, cops said.
Over the last few weeks, students have set up several encampments protesting Israel’s war in Gaza at Columbia University, New York University, The New School and Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus. All have since been cleared by university officials and cops, resulting in hundreds of arrests.
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