UNC campus moved to Condition 2 shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, suspending all non-mandatory operations and canceling all remaining classes as a rally of pro-Palestine demonstrators developed into a broader struggle with campus police over the flagpole at Polk Place.
Footage from the central open space on the Chapel Hill campus showed university police retaliating against community members who removed the United States flag around 2 p.m. and replaced it with a Palestinian flag. The group had marched over to the area — which had been the site of an encampment established by the UNC Students for Justice in Palestine chapter in the days prior — and removed temporary barricades put up by police after law enforcement arrested demonstrators Tuesday morning. While UNC Police officers and Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts came out of the South Building and raised a replacement U.S. flag, members of the pro-Palestinian group removed the American flag a second time. During the police response, of...
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