#ColumbiaUniversity’s move to use #police force to clear demonstrators…could have been avoided, as #students were urgently asking if they could leave voluntarily….
The students, who that morning had broken into Hamilton Hall & barricaded the doors, told faculty intermediaries they had enlisted the help of a Harlem pastor to help them depart safely. But university admin, saying time had run out, allowed hundreds of police officers to come onto the campus to remove protesters from the building.