Hundreds of members of teaching staff demonstrate in solidarity with arrested students as protest tents put back up on campus

A huge crowd of faculty members who teach at Columbia University in New York held a mass walk-out on Monday afternoon to protest the institution having called police to arrest students at a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last week.

Hundreds of members of the teaching cohort at Columbia walked out in solidarity with the students who were arrested by the New York police department last week and also suspended by the university.

The solidarity protest came as students put protest tents back up in the middle of campus on Monday after they were torn down last week when more than 100 arrests were made.

The university on Monday morning announced that classes would be held remotely after further days of unrest on the New York campus, following the arrest of pro-Palestinian protesters there last week.

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  • ArachnidManiaEnglish
    81·
    2 months ago

    I think it’s because some people are holding their signs with no bends directly at the camera and no light glare… It looked odd to me at a glance too.

    • Wwwbdd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      2 months ago

      I just checked back and that picture is gone from the article. It had a crowd of people with 4 or 5 if them holding up signs on what looked like printer paper with messages like “protect our students” but the signs and fonts looked unnaturally crisp, almost like a meme template