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Police confront student protestors

University of Chicago police block pro-Palestinian protesters from entering the campus after officers began tearing down an encampment early Tuesday.

Ashlee Rezin

Police confront student protestors

University of Chicago police block pro-Palestinian protesters from entering the campus after officers began tearing down an encampment early Tuesday.

Ashlee Rezin

Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

Police clear UChicago pro-Palestinian encampment

University of Chicago police block pro-Palestinian protesters from entering the campus after officers began tearing down an encampment early Tuesday.

Ashlee Rezin
By Ellie Gilbert-Bair
   

Early this morning, the University of Chicago Police Department raided the pro-Palestinian encampment student organizers set up on the quad eight days ago.

No arrests or injuries have been reported, but organizers were pushed to the ground by officers.

Meanwhile, Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws, a coalition for reproductive justice and LGBTQ+ liberation, filed a federal lawsuit against the city Thursday.

They allege that the city violated their first and fourteenth amendment rights by denying their request to protest by the Water Tower on Michigan Ave, where many Democratic National Convention delegates will be staying.

Activists are committed to marching even without a permit, but Mayor Johnson maintains the DNC will go smoothly.

Reset hears the latest in city politics.

GUESTS: Tessa Weinberg, WBEZ city government and politics reporter

Mariah Woelfel, WBEZ city government politics reporter

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