Dozens of protesters stormed Trump Tower in Midtown Thursday, demanding the discharge of Palestinian Columbia scholar Mahmoud Khalil.
The protesters chanted “Free Mahmoud! Free them all!” by the golden escalators contained in the foyer of Trump Tower, President Trump’s residence base in Manhattan, on Fifth Ave. in Midtown.
Cops had begun inserting protesters beneath arrest by 12:30 pm.
NYPD officers arrest a demonstrator from the group, Jewish Voice for Peace, inside Trump Tower Thursday. (AP Photograph/Yuki Iwamura)
The group unfurled a banner studying “Jews say Free Mahmoud & Free Palestine” and “Fight Nazis Not Students.” Organizers mentioned greater than 300 folks had been collaborating within the protest.
Activists are demanding the discharge of Khalil, who stays detained at a processing heart in Jena, La., 5 days after his arrest by plainclothes cops for the Division of Homeland Safety at his Columbia-owned residence in Morningside Heights.
