New York City police took 80 people into custody after responding to protests on Columbia's campus, the police department said.

The New York Police Department arrested 61 females at Columbia University on Wednesday as anti-Israel agitators stormed the Butler Library.

On Wednesday afternoon, a group of around 100 anti-genocide student protesters took over the Butler Library’s main reading room and renamed it the “Basel Al-Araj Popular University,” after the Palestinian activist and writer killed by Israeli forces in 2017.