NEW YORK CITY — Nearly half of protesters arrested in crackdowns on pro-Palestine encampment protests across Columbia and City College of New York didn't go to either school, according to reports, citing unnamed NYPD sources.
Police sources told CNN and New York Post that 134 individuals of 282 total protesters had no affiliation with either school, the outlets reported Thursday.
The definite figures reported came after a whirlwind media blitz in which reporters appeared to agitate Mayor Eric Adams with a simple question: how many "outside agitators" — his and the schools' main justification for deploying the NYPD — were arrested during the Tuesday night raids.
Adams had varying answers.
"It appears as though over 40 percent of those who participated in Columbia and CUNY were not from the school and they were outsiders," he said on NPR.
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