Morrill Hall was damaged and occupied by protesters demanding withdrawal from Israel, which led to numerous arrests and a university-wide health alert.
Pro-Palestinian activists took over a University of Minnesota creating Monday, leading to 11 arrests.
Around 5:40 PM, according to The Minnesota Daily, activists “occupied and barricaded” Morrill Hall before the University of Minnesota Police Department began making detention.
The school sent out a SAFE-U Disaster alert around 4: 40 p. m. stating,” Protest have entered Morrill Hall on the East Bank, causing home destruction and restricting entrance and exit from the building”.
” If you are already in Morrill Hall and able to safely exit the building, please do so soon. The alert’s conclusion read,” Individuals are advised to prevent this area until further notice.
Demonstrators blocked access to the tower with chairs, desks, processing cabinets, and bike racks. According to the Minnesota Daily, they spraypainted and smashed windows, damaging the managerial creating and locking the doors with bike locks.
The building’s people were ordered to leave by the protesters. According to CBS News,” many people were unable to leave the building, with some having to do so for an extended period of time,” according to a statement from the university.
Individuals for a Democrat Society, the organization behind the demonstration, claimed in a post on Instagram that they also hung a symbol to have the building renamed” Meto Halimy” in honor of the Arab hero.
Individuals have occupied Morrill Hall now in protest of the University of Minnesota DIVEST from the murderous Israel and all weapons companies, according to SDS in a separate article.
Protesters were even shown outside the building, holding signs and yelling “free Palestine” through megaphones in another Instagram picture.
Eleven demonstrators were “held immediately on possible cause charges,” according to SDS.
The group held a rally outside the jail Tuesday, demanding authorities “let]their ] people go”.
One opposition administrator claimed the group planned to stay until the school’s demands were met before the detention, according to CBS.
Eyal Yakoby, a student of the University of Pennsylvania and blogger, posted a picture of the detention on X.
Breaking: Following the arrest of SJP anarchists at the University of Minnesota, authorities are already making arrests there.
It is not enough for them to get arrested, the school has remove them. photograph. twitter.com/MZGmbR5Yu5
— Eyal Yakoby ( @EYakoby ) October 21, 2024
” It is not enough for them to be arrested, the university must eliminate them”, he wrote.
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