COLLEGES HAVE LOST CONTROL: NYPD Pelted With Bottles When Clearing Out Ant

The New York City police encountered the “professional agitators” and rampant academic antisemites this week when they began throwing projectiles at police as the colleges asked police for help and began making arrests.

“They would not move, they would not let go.”

Many Ivy League schools, supposed places for higher learning, allowed protests to become out of control with pro-Hamas students making it impossible for classes to continue.  The NYPD was called into Columbia University to disperse the crowds but many went to other colleges such as New York University where students and tenured professors held anti-Israel protests.

On late Monday evening, video showed police officers at NYU being struck with various projectiles such as bottles, rocks and even a chair.  The Strategic Response Group was called in to help disperse crowds at the Greenwich Village school when the college decided to shut down protests and crowd members continued to get out of control.

The NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry posted to X, “When NYU asked the NYPD to clear Gould Plaza of individuals who were refusing to disperse and were ‘interfering with the safety and security of our community.,’ our officers moved in without delay. Unfortunately, as they were dispersing the crowd, some chose violence and pelted the police with bottles & chairs. The professionalism and composure our officers showed as they cleared the plaza — despite these dangerous acts of aggression they encountered — are to be commended.”

Another video gaining views on social media shows faculty members of the school linking arms blocking the plaza from being cleared singing Middle Eastern words into a megaphone, harassing officers and preventing arrests.

“The faculty — from what I personally observed, and spoke to lieutenants and captains out there — the most aggressive towards the police,” said Daughtry during an interview on Fox 5 with fellow NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Tarik Sheppard. “They would not move, they would not let go.”

Sheppard said, “I think parents have an expectation that when they send their kids to college the faculty and their professors will be teaching and not protesting. It was shocking to see the faculty out there.”

The New York Post reported 120 protestors were arrested with four given desk appearance tickets with the charge of resisting arrest and 116 remaining protestors received trespassing summonses.

Daughtry also noticed that the faculty members were “the most aggressive” after being asked to disperse and it was clear that “professional agitators” were at the protest solely to “rouse up the mob mentality.”

“At this point we consider all protesters occupying Gould Plaza to be trespassers, and we would like the NYPD to clear the area and to take action to remove the protestors,” the school said when asking the police to intervene.  “In the event they refuse to leave, we request the NYPD take enforcement action accordingly up to and including arrest.”