Doesn’t this qualify as an insurrection?They’re violently uprising against an authority—the Columbia administration.
— Julia 🇺🇸 (@Jules31415) April 30, 2024
NEW: 🇺🇲 American students and professors are intensifying protests against Israeli genocide and corrupt politicians
Anti-Israeli genocide protesters have now stormed the Hamilton Hall building on the Columbia University campus in New York and have begun fortifying and… pic.twitter.com/QBggRVpVEi
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) April 30, 2024
Protesters breaks into Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York City; protesters has occupied the building.
— AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) April 30, 2024
Insurrection refers to a violent uprising or rebellion against an authority or government, often with the aim of overthrowing or resisting established power.
#NOW Inside #ColumbiaUniversity "INTIFADA" Banner hanging down the building and a pile of Broken Furniture outside of Columbia University's Hamilton Hall that has been stormed and occupied by protesters at "Gaza Solidarity Encampment".
Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/pIiUua23t8
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) April 30, 2024
NEW: People are breaking through windows at Columbia University using hammers and hatchets.
They've baracaded themselves in the building. pic.twitter.com/iyknLdlIj3
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) April 30, 2024
Dozens of Columbia students just became felons.
Columbia president is probably asleep. Where are campus police officers. Where is the nypd.
Khymani James is back on the scene.
They’re stacking tables to block the entrance, zip tying the doors.
Columbia terrorists break windows and take over Hamilton Hall. Unconfirmed reports of hostage.
Second video from Hamilton Hall. Situation is developing.
Columbia begins suspending student protesters
Dozens of Columbia University students are occupying Hamilton Hall, one of the campus buildings occupied during 1968 student protests, according to a social media post early Tuesday from Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine.
Overnight, protesters on campus made their way from the West Lawn encampment to Hamilton Hall, one of the main academic buildings for undergraduates.
Hours earlier, the university announced it had begun suspending students who refused to leave the encampment before a 2 p.m. Monday deadline set by the administration.
CNN has reached out to Columbia University and the New York Police Department for more information.