Helping right now. New encampments of anti war protesters popping
up on other campuses now from coast to coast.
More than a dozen people arrested at the University of
Maryland where students staged a sit in for Palestinians today.
Then in Atlanta protesters clashing with police on Emory
University's campus. Even reports of getting tased.
Georgia State troopers also making several arrests there.
Let's bring in our Phil lip off.
He's been following all the developments,
so let's start with the protests at the University of
Maryland not far from here,
and ABC News in the center of DC What happened?
Phil doesn't arrest today as you mentioned,
but for the most part it has been a sit
in to show solidarity with the 100 or so protesters
arrested at Columbia here in New York City last week
and to make demands that UMD divest from Israel in
every way.
Some of the students there with some very close and
personal ties to Gaza,
all of our family is in Rafa.
So they're under bombardment. They're having the issues with food,
They don't have food, they don't have water,
their houses are being bombed and our relatives have been
being killed.
Just want Maryland University of Maryland to just recognize that
like hey,
I do exist. I need their support.
I need them like I would love for them to
divest.
I don't want my money or tuition money to go
towards like war.
And killing people
certainly is a valid concern.
There are many Jewish students on campuses all across this
country that find a lot of this rhetoric
anti-Semitic, Kira.
So let's go to Emory University now in Atlanta where
things actually turned violent.
What do you know? Yeah,
that was one of the many places it turned violent.
Emory, the university says a few dozen people here,
it came on to campus who are actually not members
of the school community.
They set up tents in the quad and began to
clash with police.
Take you to Northwestern University in Illinois.
Dozens of students have set up tent encampment there and
are calling it a Free Gaza Liberated zone.
The problem is none of these encampments are actually seen
as liberated space by any of the school administrations that
they are happening at.
Northwestern says the tents are a violation of school policy
and when police moved in to take them down,
protesters linked their arms and tried to keep folks away
from them.
These are live pictures where guys from
This is from Northwestern, so you can see they're surrounding
the tents there.
Again, the school says this is not their policy to
allow this to happen.
They're negotiating with the folks who were there at UC
Berkeley want to mention this Kira campus with a very
proud legacy as you know,
of embracing social protest and encampment grew overnight.
Students say they will not leave until the school cuts
all ties with Israeli schools and companies with ties to
arms suppliers,
and they want the University of California to formally recognize
Israel's actions as genocide.
And again, many Jewish students on that campus say they
feel intimidated,
not welcomed, with all these tents and encampments.
And they find a lot of the rhetoric from the
protesters
anti-Semitic.
Phil, appreciate your reporting.