“YPD, KKK, IDF they’re all the same,” obstinate pro-Palestine/Hamas protesters at Yale University chanted Monday night, conflating the Yale Police Department, the Ku Klux Klan and Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
Yale had offered amnesty to the students who abandon their unauthorized protest sites by 9:00 p.m. – but the protesters chose to stay the night.
They also voted to reject Yale’s offer to arrange a meeting with university trustees.
As the protesters were finally cleared out on Tuesday morning, they vowed to return, Yale Daily News reports:
“In the morning, after taping off the area around the encampment on Cross Campus, police officers also blocked off access from College Street to the lawn next to Grace Hopper College.”
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“As of 8:29 a.m., protesters have begun to disperse. One organizer announced to the crowd, ‘We will return. Keep checking Instagram. Trust. We will be back.’”
Also on Monday, Yale Police officers arrested a student “suspected of vandalizing university property” – an American flag – during the previous week’s protests, which resulted in the arrest of 44 students during their nine-hour occupation of an intersection, The Yale Daily News reports:
“New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson confirmed to the New Haven Independent that Yale Police obtained a warrant charging the student with criminal mischief for allegedly tampering with the American flagpole at Beinecke Plaza during the pro-Palestinian protest April 19.”