NYPD arrests two NYU professors at pro-Palestinian protest
The New York Metropolis Police Division arrested two New York College professors who had been at a pro-Palestinian protest on campus Thursday, in accordance with the vp of NYU’s American Affiliation of College Professors chapter.
Paula Chakravartty, the AAUP vp and an affiliate professor of media research, mentioned the 2 college members arrested had been Andrew Ross and Sonya Posmentier. Chakravartty mentioned each are members of the AAUP chapter’s govt board.
NYU mentioned eight folks had been arrested Thursday, however neither the college nor the NYPD offered full info on who was arrested, or on what costs.
Chakravartty mentioned the 2 arrested professors weren’t really collaborating within the protest exterior Bobst Library (the place NYU’s administration is headquartered) however had been there to make sure the protesters’ security. NYPD officers zip-tied and jailed each professors, she mentioned.
“We see this as a gross violation of educational freedom, of civil disobedience, in an already hypermilitarized campus the place we’ve got to actually undergo checkpoints to go to our places of work and to show,” Chakravartty mentioned. She mentioned the protest was peaceable.
NYU spokesperson John Beckman mentioned in an announcement that it wasn’t peaceable, however he didn’t specify whether or not college had been there or what that they had achieved.
“These protesters sought to dam all of the entryways into and out of the constructing, ignoring the clear course of NYU Campus Security Officers and repeated makes an attempt by college personnel to de-escalate,” Beckman wrote.
“The folks concerned had been deliberately concentrating on members of our neighborhood; their harassing habits disrupted our tutorial operations at a very crucial second within the semester (as finals begin), ignored the rights of scholars who want to examine within the library, and interfered with secure passage into and out of a core tutorial constructing,” he wrote.
