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UNC System campus police officers and other law enforcement agencies arrested students and community members at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment site for UNC-Chapel Hill early Tuesday morning, with the university later saying around 30 people were removed by police. Shortly after 6 a.m., more than two dozen police officers approached the encampment site at Polk Place and began arresting demonstrators on the orders of UNC leadership — after Interim Chancellor Lee Roberts and Provost Chris Clemens shared a release at 5:37 a.m. warning the group to disperse or they would face punishment. The university release said the group broke university policy, not just by having tents assembled in Polk Place but also that members of the protest had trespassed into university buildings overnight. Both UNC Students for Justice in Palestine — the organizing group for the encampment, which advocates for UNC to end any financial ties with companies that would benefit from the war in Gaza — and the univer...
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