City College/CUNY protesters hit with major felonies — Columbia U. protestors get slaps on wrists!
{City College Protestors Get an Ugly Bum-Rush to Injustice!}
By “The Nation” Reporter Nicolas Niarchos (Copyedited for this Medium.com column by Prof Gregg W. Morris who teaches journalism at Hunter College)
In the early hours of May 1, teams of police in riot gear, brandishing mace and tasers, stormed the neo-Gothic Harlem campus of the City College of New York to remove a Gaza solidarity encampment.
Earlier in the evening and about 20 blocks south, officers had removed protesters from Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, which students had occupied in the early hours of the previous morning. 170 people were arrested at City College, and 112 at Columbia. More than 2,000 people have been arrested protesting against Israel on campuses nationwide in the last month.
The events on both campuses seemed to be part and parcel of the same story, but as the arraignments concluded on the afternoon of May 2, it turned out that the charges against the two sets of protesters were very different.
