The drama played out Monday and Tuesday at Queens College, which was transformed into the made-up 'Kincaid College' for an episode of 'FBI: Most Wanted.' The made-for-TV encampment sparked a protest, with video from CUNY4PALESTINE, a campus anti-Israel group, showing a handful of demonstrators running up and positioning themselves in front of a group of extras holding prop signs around a college building entrance.
The show's set decorators created a strikingly realistic facsimile of the encampments set up at Big Apple universities throughout the spring, complete with tents, banners, and signs - but taking a stand against climate change, not Israel as the real ones did. The school announced the planned campus disruption in a letter, alerting students and staff to various elements of the shoot they could expect to see in the coming days.
The letter also warned there would be a 'chase and arrest scene' playing out on the roof of the science building that would include 'a stunt person falling off the roof.' Firecrackers and smoke effects were used to simulate the campus unrest, the school wrote. A Queens College official said that despite the anti-Israel demonstrators' efforts, there were 'no disruptions of any kind' as producers filmed.
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