Police officers reportedly arrested over 60 protesters at the University of Massachusetts. Amherst
Students and protesters gathered on the university’s south lawn to return to a previously cleared encampment and condemn the Israeli military for taking theBREAKING: Wild footage as more arrests happen at UMass Amherst. UMass Amherst SJP is claiming over 130 students have been arrested.Protesters constructed a barricade around the encampment on the university’s south lawn, 22News reported.
“A big thing is divesting from war profiteers and divesting from a genocide in general. A big focus has been around Raytheon because it’s such a big weapons contributor to Israel,” “You guys are not willing to listen at all, we are going to show you our encampment and show you what we can do to ask for a change,”
UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes deployed campus police to deconstruct the encampment on Tuesday night, 22News reported. He provided a statement about the demonstration and a previous meeting he had with the group’s leaders. “Earlier today, members of my leadership team and I met with representatives of the demonstrators who have established an unauthorized encampment on the South Lawn of the Student Union,” . “Over more than an hour and a half, we discussed a series of demands ranging from financial divestment to the status of students’ civil court cases following the October 2023 Whitmore arrests.
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