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The Manhattan district attorney dropped the charges for more than half of the Columbia University protesters who were arrested in April during a pro-Palestine demonstration on campus.
Hundreds of students seized Hamilton Hall, a building on Columbia’s campus in Manhattan, on April 30 amid a nationwide mobilization of protests on college campuses to protest Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and called on their institutions toThe protests revolve around Israel’s ongoing offensive against the militant group Hamas in Gaza, after it had launched a deadly surprise attack against Israel on Oct. 7.
Some of the protestors said at a press conference after their hearing that they would reject the proposed dismissal of their charges as a means of showing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.HuffPost reached out to a spokesperson for Columbia who declined to comment.
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