Important Takeaways:
- It was just after 5:30 a.m. when chaos and confusion swept through the encampment. A student who filmed the raid by the Chicago Police Department provided the footage to CBS 2. Students tried to block the officers’ entry, but the officers pushed through.
- DePaul University President Robert Manuel gave law enforcement the green light Wednesday night, after deeming the situation on campus “unsafe.”
- After the raid, students quickly regrouped, taking their movement across the street to a gas station.
- DePaul also reported more than 1,000 complaints altogether, including more than 625 registered complaints from neighbors and community members, and more than 425 from students, faculty and staff, and parents.
- These complaints included one death threat, four credible threats of violence, 12 incidents of criminal property damage, and 34 reports of antisemitism, among other issues raised.
- DePaul also outlined numerous complaints of harassment at the encampment and of Jewish community members feeling unsafe.
- “You know, the day that the encampment went up, one of the first signs that went up said, ‘Jewish safety cannot be guaranteed until Palestine is free’
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