New Footage Shows NYPD Attacking Peaceful Protesters at Columbia’s Hind’s Hall
New York City (Quds News Network)- An anti-genocide activist group has released new footage showing NYPD officers throwing stun grenades and attacking peaceful protesters inside Hind’s Hall at Columbia University last year. The video, published by “Unity of Fields”, comes in response to the recent expulsion of a student protester.
BREAKING: Columbia has issued its first expulsion for alleged involvement in the occupation of Hind’s Hall.
In response, we are releasing never before seen footage of the Battle of Hind’s Hall–which was smuggled out in a militant’s bra–with a message to the Student Intifada: pic.twitter.com/j0YFBvvvYU
— Unity of Fields (@unityoffields) March 4, 2025
President also claims he will imprison ‘agitators’ a day after administration called for review at Columbia University.
The video shows dozens of students chanting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza while trying to push back the hall’s door. NYPD officers forcefully broke through and began throwing stun grenades at the unarmed students.
The footage emerges as the Trump administration threatens to cut federal funding to Columbia University over alleged antisemitism.
US President Donald Trump had threatened on Tuesday to halt all federal funding for colleges or schools that allow “illegal protests” and vowed to imprison student protesters, whom he referred to as “agitators”, in a social media statement that prompted alarm from free speech advocates.
“All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on [sic] the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Last year, students occupied Hamilton Hall, renaming it Hind’s Hall in honor of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old Palestinian girl executed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The takeover came after the university suspended students who refused to end a peaceful protest.
The standoff escalated as protests against Israel’s genocide—which has killed hundreds of thousands of Palestinians—spread to American and European campuses.
Hamilton Hall has been a key site for student activism. In 1968, anti-Vietnam War protesters occupied the building, renaming it Malcolm X Liberation College. In 1985, students blockaded the hall for three weeks, demanding divestment from apartheid South Africa. They named it Mandela Hall in honor of Nelson Mandela.
