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

Dozens of people multiple were taken into custody by the New York Police Department at Columbia University after a pro-Palestinian protest in an area of the main library on campus Wednesday.

Dozens of people were taken into custody during protests at Columbia University on Wednesday, and the school is once again limiting access to its campus. Only those with a university ID or approved faculty guests are allowed past checkpoints Thursday,