Police have still arrested a lot of people at protests in the U.S., mostly at colleges. There were arrests made as police broke up protest camps at UPenn in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Authorities at a school in Philadelphia said that the kids could leave on their own without being held and that they were going to tear down a protest camp that had been there for two weeks. Authorities said that more than thirty people were held at UPenn, but only nine of them were students. The others were protesters who had nothing to do with the school, they said.
There have been protests at colleges across the country because students want their schools to stop giving money to groups that support Israel. Organizers are making their voices heard to end the war in Gaza. The UN Court says there is a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza. Israel says this is not true.
Police showed up at MIT around 4 a.m. and gave the protesters fifteen minutes to leave. Ten of the kids who were still at the camp were arrested.
Police at the University of Arizona used tear gas on students. The university says that rocks, water bottles, and other things were thrown at police and staff, and police cars were spiked. Two people were caught after this happened.
At New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, thirteen people were arrested because they wouldn’t leave a building that had been smashed. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, protesters decided to take down their two-week-old camp and not get in the way of graduation if they could talk to the “decision-makers” who decide how the university spends its money.
A protest at New York City’s Columbia University was the first of the protests about three weeks ago. Some colleges acted quickly, while others put up with protests for a while and are now calling the police because of the ongoing trouble. A little over 3,000 students have been jailed since the protests began.
