Manhattan is in chaos as hundreds of police officers stormed universities in a coordinated strike to clear out pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to leave.
Protesters threw flares and barricaded themselves inside an administrative building at the City University of New York, about 20 blocks north of Columbia University.
NYPD officers moved in after 9.30pm to disperse crowds outside as flares turned the college’s famous arch red and protestors chanted and waved flags in support of Gaza.
Police earlier cleared out protesters at Columbia University after weeks of a tent encampment protest escalated when a group took over Hamilton Hall.
Columbia, which was the epicenter for the anti-Israel encampments that have spread across the US, saw hundreds of cops flood the Ivy League campus and dozens arrested to stop the encampment.