US EditionTwelve arrested during anti-ICE protest at Columbia University
- On Thursday afternoon, a dozen anti-ICE protesters were arrested by the NYPD outside Columbia University after sitting in the street and blocking traffic near Broadway and 116th Street.
- Columbia University said ICE must have a judicial warrant to access non-public areas and no university leadership or board of trustees requested ICE presence, while supporting peaceful protest and disputing false claims made during the demonstration.
- The Columbia Spectator reported that the 12 arrested included students and faculty, with professors linking arms and accepting arrest, while commentators said this signals faculty-led political organizing on elite campuses.
- After the standoff, the NYPD ordered protesters to move and said they would face disorderly conduct charges, while journalists and commentators said the Columbia arrests reflect broader campus political shifts.
- The episode highlights commentators arguing faculty shift from educators to political actors, warning universities may struggle as institutions of liberal learning and campus governance.
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When Faculty Become the Gateway to Campus Radicalism
This week, the Columbia Spectator reported that the NYPD arrested 12 people—including students and faculty—at an anti-ICE demonstration outside Columbia University’s campus gates. Protesters blocked traffic near Broadway and 116th Street, demanding Columbia re-declare itself a sanctuary campus. It would be easy to file this away as another episode in a long season of campus activism. But the presence of faculty changes the meaning entirely. When…
Twelve arrested during anti-ICE protest at Columbia University
Professors, students and supporters staged an anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest outside Columbia University on Thursday (February 5), briefly shutting down traffic on Broadway before police moved in and arrested 12 people.
Protesters arrested after staging Columbia ‘sanctuary campus’ against ICE
Twelve protesters were arrested Thursday after staging a demonstration against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside of Columbia University in New York that blocked roadways. A spokesperson for the New York Police Department said protesters were told to disperse multiple times and were impeding traffic before a dozen people were taken into custody and issued…
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