Here's a recap of today's eventspublished at 02:02 British Summer Time 2 May 2024
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Thank you for following along with our coverage of the campus protests across the US today.
We brought you reporting from Tom Bateman in Dallas, Texas; Nomia Iqbal, Phil McCausland and Morgan Gisholt Minard in New York; Regan Morris in Los Angeles; and Mike Wendling in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Here's a recap of the some of the day's key moments:
- Police moved in to clear protest camps on a number of campuses on Wednesday, including at the University of Texas at Dallas
- Arrests also took place at Fordham University in New York
- New York City Mayor Eric Adams said police made 300 arrests at Columbia University and the City College of New York on Tuesday night
- During a campaign rally in Wisconsin, former President Donald Trump described the police raid at Columbia as "a beautiful thing to watch"
- At least a dozen protesters were arrested at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Four police officers sustained injuries as the situation escalated outside the university library
- Rival protesters clashed on campus at the University of California, Los Angeles, dozens were reported injured
- California Gov Gavin Newsom's office called the "limited and delayed" campus law enforcement response at UCLA's campus "unacceptable."
- There have been more than 1,000 arrests in the last two weeks as pro-Palestinian protests continue on campuses across the US
You can read in-depth coverage here