NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry hailed a “proud moment” overnight into May 1, as officers restored “order” at New York’s City College, “culminating in raising Old Glory once again on their campus flagpole” after lowering a Palestinian flag.Along with Daughtry, the head of the NYPD’s press office, Tarik Sheppard, was also involved in the flag-raising.City College
said all classes and work were being moved to remote learning on Wednesday due to an “encampment of demonstrators.”Speaking to
MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Mayor Eric Adams, who routinely raises the flags of foreign countries at Bowling Green to honor visitors, said it was “despicable” that a Palestinian flag had been raised at City College and praised Daughtry and Sheppard for raising the US flag in its place.“Blame me for being proud for being an American,” said Adams, who four days earlier held a ceremony to
raise the South African flag downtown.The
NYPD also responded at the Columbia campus on April 30, after the university requested help clearing an occupied building and protest encampments. Credit:
NYPD via Storyful