Amid the chaos of the Hamilton Hall occupation at Columbia University, the NYPD said an officer unintentionally fired a shot in the building. He was opening the locked door from the inside, and when he shifted the gun from his dominant hand to his nondominant hand, he accidentally fired his weapon.
In response to questions about the use of a SWAT team for the Columbia University operation, Assistant Chief Carlos Valdez, the commanding officer of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit, defended the decision, citing the necessity of being prepared for unpredictable situations when dealing with barricaded individuals.
Mayor Eric Adams made it clear that he believes many people at the protests are not students, and should not be there. 'Do we see familiar faces of people around the protests? And they came back substantiated on the Columbia grounds and other grounds that those who were professionals participated in training and participated in some of the activities,' Adams said.
"The idea of us being 'outside agitators' is false. We are all current students. Everyone had a connection to Columbia in one way or another in there," one student said.
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