WASHINGTON, D.C. — Officers with Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department finally cleared out the anti-Israel encampment at George Washington University early Wednesday morning.
The encampment at GWU had been in place for weeks and was unique among the wave of camps across the country because GWU leadership had asked D.C. city leaders early on to remove the camp, but the mayor and police chief refused. The college has said its police department is not equipped to handle crowd control.
The encampment grew in size after it became clear the protesters were not going to be removed anytime soon. Occupiers took down the American flag that was on a flagpole, causing tension when police tried to replace it. The school then draped a large American flag on a
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