Layla 🪬 @itslaylas

power to the people! | palestinian-american, grad student @columbiassw, organizing @p4p_cssw, alum @ncstate psych | likes & RT’s aren’t endorsements | she/her | buymeacoffee.com/itslaylas NYC // NC Joined August 2014

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maryam alwan🇵🇸 @maryamalwan

3 hours ago

I am still horrified by what I witnessed tonight. Columbia University will never be the same again.

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alotta fagina @nypdSMD

19 hours ago

The fourth estate everyone

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klaudia @kaludiasays

4 hours ago

one very VERY important thing to remember if you are horrified about what you saw tonight at CCNY, Columbia, and UCLA (and in Rafah), is to tell people not on Twitter, TikTok, IG, etc, your less online friends and family. explain, give context, inform.

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Abed A. Ayoub @aayoub

8 hours ago

.@CNN talking about how no one was hurt, and the NYPD was careful. Meanwhile videos like this are all over social media. This one from the IG page of @ColumbiaSJP. Also reports of officers turning off body cams and then using excessive force against students.

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Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed

5 hours ago

Just watch the first two minutes. You hear tasers going off; students are screaming throughout. They are thrown to the ground, assaulted. We see the police throw students down the stairs as the cops also push away press. This video is just 5 minutes of what happened tonight.

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine @ColumbiaSJP

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Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine @ColumbiaSJP

5 hours ago

THIS IS THE SCENE @Columbia UNIVERSITY AND THE NYPD DID NOT WANT YOU TO SEE. THIS IS WHY THEY FORCED EVERYONE OUT. POLICE USED TASERS & TEAR GAS ON STUDENTS. YOU CAN HEAR SCREAMING AT THE END. WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE INSIDE THE BUILDING. youtu.be/7T3shB7wYdI?si…

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Prem Thakker @prem_thakker

9 hours ago

Columbia faculty: We “have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia’s campus and have been rebuffed or ignored.” Says administration + Trustees “will bear responsibility” for any injury that may occur in looming police action.

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Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now

7 hours ago

Legal witnesses just confirmed that protesters heads have been smashed against the sidewalk, their heads beaten with batons.

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Riff 🪂 @Riffs33

5 hours ago

So please DOCUMENT. DOCUMENT. DOCUMENT everything: - any cuts, bruises, injuries, etc - take pictures of the progression of these injuries - keep proof of any hospital visits and any short term/ long term side effects

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Natasha Lightfoot 🇦🇬 @njlightfoot

8 hours ago

Oh Ive been BLOCKING people on here tonight. Some of yall have had the wildest reactions to students exercising free speech and a moral conscience and you need to take that to somebody else’s tl. Not mine.

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Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff

5 hours ago

One of the most frustrating nights for press access i’ve experienced as a reporter. At Columbia & CCNY, police barricaded public streets for blocks, obstructing journalists from seeing what was happening even from a distance. A policy of exclusion cheered on by Eric Adams’ staff

Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt

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sippin on that 🇵🇸 @vivafalastin

6 hours ago

ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭

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Talia Jane @taliaotg

7 hours ago

I have covered tons of protests over the years and the cop response to Columbia University tonight was more than I’ve ever seen. It felt like they were using these student protestors as an excuse to play with their military toys.

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Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI

8 hours ago

As the NYPD’s “strategic response group” leads the crackdown at Columbia I’m reminded how the SRG was originally pitched as an elite counterterror unit that would stop ISIS attacks. 9 yrs on they’re primarily used to spy on and arrest protestors and clear out homeless camps.