Protesters began setting up new tents on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus around 7 p.m. on Friday.
ByNEW YORK --Protesters began setting up new tents on Columbia 's Morningside Heights campus around 7 p.m. on Friday, a smaller demonstration compared to the university's April encampment, which resulted inAbout an hour later, campus security began removing some of the tents, but a small number remain as of Saturday morning."We are aware of the encampment erected this evening and are monitoring the situation.
Meanwhile over in Brooklyn, a group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators made their way from Barclays Center to the Brooklyn Museum on Friday afternoon. Demonstrators around 4:30 p.m. came up Eastern Parkway and began protesting outside ithe museum's plaza. According to museum, protesters managed to get inside the institution, block entrances and unfurl banners both indoors and on the facade of the building. The museum also says that "there was damage to existing and newly installed artwork on our plaza, and members of our public safety staff were physically and verbally harassed."Janice Yu has the full report on Zelle scamming.
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