They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds’

New York City police entered Columbia University Tuesday evening in an apparent effort to disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who seized and occupied a classroom building and have been encamped on the campus for two weeks.

Video footage showed protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locking arms in front of Hamilton Hall early Tuesday and carrying furniture and metal barricades to the building, one of several that was occupied during a 1968 civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protest on the campus.

Students and faculty at VCU condemned what they called a disproportionate response to peaceful protestors on campus after police arrested 13 and pepper sprayed dozens of people Monday night.

Around 9 p.m. Monday a police car playing a prerecorded message arrived, warning protesters they were in an unlawful assembly and those remaining could be subject to projectiles and chemicals. For the next few hours,