NYPD Disperses Pro-Palestine Protest at New York University After Assistance Sought

Protests have swept across college campuses in the United States and around the world since Israel and Hamas went to war after the events of Oct. 7.

A police car drives through the Manhattan borough of New York City, on Jan. 14, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

An encampment set up by students at New York University (NYU) has been dispersed, and arrests were reportedly made after pro-Palestine protesters refused the school’s requests to leave the area.

According to a post on social media platform X on April 22, Kaz Daughtry, the deputy commissioner of the New York Police Department’s Security Operations Center, stated that NYU leadership contacted him via a letter regarding an ongoing protest in Gould Plaza.