Police dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago

By TERESA CRAWFORD
Associated Press

CHICAGO (AP) — Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago. The move on Thursday comes less than a week after the school’s president said public safety was at risk. The chief of patrol for the Chicago Police Department says all the protesters “voluntarily left” the encampment when officers arrived. He says two people were arrested outside the encampment for “obstruction of traffic.” Students at many college campuses this spring set up similar encampments. They have been calling for their schools to cut ties with Israel and businesses that support it, to protest lsrael’s actions in the war in Gaza.