CUNY Grad Center Library Standoff Ends Peacefully After President Agrees to Share Demands
Protesters occupied the library for three hours before departing.
Protesters occupied the library for three hours before departing.
CCNY President Vincent Boudreau shared the sentiments on calls with faculty and students.
Footage captured by the NYCity News Service shows campus cops unleashing pepper spray during a clash over a campus building. Scores of arrests followed that night.
CCNY students said the college's decision to call in the NYPD flew in the face of the school's history of activism.
Crowds gathered outside NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
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