31 Jan 2012
So Long, Farewell

31 Jan 2012
RC Flying People over New York City

The protests came to a conclusion in the early morning hours of April 30, 1968, when the NYPD violently quashed the demonstrations. Hamilton Hall was cleared peacefully as African American lawyers were outside ready to represent SAS members in court and a tactical squad of African American police officers with the NYPD led by Detective Sanford Garelick (the same investigator of the Malcolm X homicide) had cleared the African American students out of Hamilton Hall. The buildings occupied by whites however were cleared violently as approximately 150 students were injured and taken to hospitals, while over 700 protesters were arrested.

More protesting Columbia and Barnard students were arrested and/or injured by New York City police during a second round of protests May 17-18, 1968, when community residents occupied a Columbia University-owned partially vacant apartment building at 618 West 114 Street to protest Columbia's expansion policies, and later when students re-occupied Hamilton Hall to protest Columbia's suspension of "The IDA Six." (It might be noted that in the police arrest of 113 people at 618 West 114 Street, they also arrested four people watching events from the lobby of 622 West 114th Street, an apartment building not owned by Columbia. These four later had their trespassing charges dismissed. None had been directly involved in the demonstrations, although two were Columbia alumni and one a Barnard student. The Barnard student and one alumnus lived in 622, and this alumnus was covering the events for Liberation News Service.)

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