After resisting repeated pleas from George Washington University to clear a pro-Palestinian encampment from the school’s grounds, D.C. police on Wednesday became the latest department in the country to forcibly remove such campus protesters, as officers swept through a tent city erected blocks from the White House. Moving in before dawn, members of the department’s civil disturbance unit arrested 33 people and skirmished with some demonstrators, police said. Officers fired pepper spray three times at people they said tried to push through a line of officers on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just off the Foggy Bottom campus, according to police.

Source: Washington Post May 08, 2024 20:10 UTC