CBS New York political reporter Marcia Kramer says you could call it a "no tents" policy.
NYPD working with schools on protest response plans, sources say
The NYPD says officers had to use metal cutters and brute strength to breach a forest of barricades, trash cans, bicycle locks and piles of furniture to clear protesters out of Hamilton Hall at Columbia on Tuesday night.
City sources tell CBS New York that to avoid a repeat performance, the NYPD has been working with dozens of schools and colleges to develop protest response plans.
They say rule number one is no encampments -- don't let the tents go up, and if they do, remove them quickly.
Of the 112 people arrested at Columbia on Tuesday, police say 29% were not affiliated with the school.
Sources also tell CBS New York that weapons such as small pocket knives and bats were found scattered on the floor when NYPD officers swept Columbia's Hamilton Hall.
NYPD body camera video shows officers cutting through locks to breach Hamilton Hall on Columbia University's campus Tuesday night.
Police say 60% of those arrested at City College had no affiliation with that school.
"We saw a change in protest behavior when we saw destruction of property, taken-over buildings. We saw the patterns that these individuals that we identify are used to doing," Adams said.
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