Protesters picketed outside New York University and The New School on Friday, May 3, hours after the New York Police Department arrested dozens of people and cleared out protest encampments at both campuses, local reports
said.In a post to X,
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said
NYU and
The New School both requested assistance in dispersing the “illegal encampments.” According to
NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell, 56 people were arrested Friday morning.Photojournalist
Brendan Gutenschwager captured footage of protesters outside NYU’s John A. Paulson Center, Bobst Library, and The New School’s University Center on Friday afternoon.According to a
flyer, protesters picketing at
NYU are calling for “amnesty for all students, faculty, and graduate workers involved in the encampment,” they want “cops off our campus,” and demand the
NYU administration “substantively negotiate with students over their demands for disclosure, divestment, and an academic boycott of Israel.” Credit: Brendan Gutenschwager via Storyful