NYPD arrested 282 protesters at Columbia and the City College of New York. Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement.

Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.

Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.

Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.

  • @FireTower
    -31•7 months ago

    The denied water part seems strange. Most American jails have water fountain toilet combos like this:

    • @dugmeup
      61•7 months ago

      That is not a general population holding cell. That is the nicest jail cell I have seen.

      • @Fedizen
        10•7 months ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised if that image is a jail for “white collar” crimes or not even in the US

      • @FireTower
        -20•7 months ago

        The cell itself is pretty nice and non gen pop but I was more so just using it because it was one of the first pictures that popped up showing one.

    • @[email protected]
      14•7 months ago

      I’ve been in cells without toilets or water. They’re designed for temporary holding (an hour or so), for things like waiting on transportation or intake, for example.

    • @cybersandwich
      -17•7 months ago

      Yea and even the holding cells have those. Usually behind a half wall where it’s not really private but its sorta blocking your business.

      Those sink/toilet combos are what had Dems claiming migrants were “drinking out of toilets”.

        • @cybersandwich
          1•6 months ago

          What?

          I see this thread got brigaded by down voters.

          • @Nurse_Robot
            1•6 months ago

            You went out of your way to make it political. The thread was not “brigaded”, people just don’t like that shit

            • @cybersandwich
              1•6 months ago

              If it makes you feel any better I am very much a Democrat. So it was a little bit of criticizing “my own team” so to speak.

              But I can see how it reads in hindsight. Haha I sound like my grandpa at Thanksgiving.