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At Columbia, Student Protesters Say They Were Attacked With Chemicals [1]

['Gaya Gupta']

Date: 2024-01-22

Columbia University and the Police Department are investigating reports that pro-Palestinian student demonstrators were sprayed with a foul-smelling chemical during a protest last week, leading the university on Monday to bar the people accused of spraying it from campus.

In a statement that was emailed to all Columbia students and faculty members on Monday night, Dennis A. Mitchell, the university’s interim provost, said that the individuals had been barred while the Police Department investigated “what appears to have been serious crimes, possibly hate crimes.”

He called the events at the protest, on the steps of Low Library, “deeply troubling” and added that the university condemned “in the strongest possible terms any threats or acts of violence” directed toward its community members. Some students required medical treatment, the statement said.

A spokesman for the Police Department said that there had been no arrests and that an investigation was continuing.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/nyregion/palestinian-protest-columbia-university.html

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