00:00Professors, students, and supporters staged an anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE protest outside Columbia University on Thursday, briefly blocking traffic along Broadway before police intervened and arrested 12 people.
00:17Demonstrators held a sit-in at Broadway and 116th Street as New York City police repeatedly ordered them to clear the roadway.
00:25Protestors accused the university of cooperating with ICE and called for the campus to be declared a sanctuary.
00:32This university worked with the Trump regime to put Ranjani in a camp, and now that same fear has become endemic at Columbia.
00:42When Christy Noem called our friend a terrorist, Columbia said nothing.
00:48When ICE came for Mohsen and Mahmoud, they said nothing.
00:52Protestors argued that campuses should protect all students regardless of status and called on university leadership to resist fear and repression rather than enabling surveillance or punishment.
01:07In response, Columbia University said ICE would require a judicial warrant to enter non-public areas of the campus and that no university officials had requested ICE's presence on or near campus.
01:20The university also reaffirmed its support for peaceful protest, but said several claims made during the demonstration were inaccurate.
01:29Or if you resist arrest, you may be placed under arrest on the charge of disorderly conduct.
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