Chicago police clear out DePaul University pro-Palestinian protest encampment in Lincoln Park after over 2 weeks | LIVE [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment on DePaul University’s Lincoln Park quad Thursday morning.

Officers in riot gear were seen on the North Side campus just before 6 a.m.

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The encampment had been in place for over two weeks; it began on April 30.

In a letter to faculty, staff and students early Thursday, DePaul President Robert L. Manuel said, “despite our good faith efforts to come to a shared resolution with the DePaul Divestment Coalition, we were unsuccessful.”

He said since the encampment began, “the situation has steadily escalated with physical altercations, credible threats of violence from people not associated with our community, an inability for the other members of our community to take part in the core academic experiences on our campus, and an ever-growing series of threats to the people involved in the encampment and our …