The University of Pennsylvania police arrested 19 pro-Palestinian protesters Friday night after they allegedly tried to occupy a campus building, the school said. The university's police department said the protesters, the majority of whom were not students, attempted to get into Fisher-Bennett Hall when campus officers and officers from the Philadelphia Police Department intervened. (WPVI)The protest group Penn Gaza Solidarity said in a release that it was planning on occupying the building. MORE: How pro-Palestinian protests unfolded on college campuses across the US: A timelineUPenn claimed that campus officers found "lock-picking tools and homemade metal shields fashioned from oil drums." 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested for trying to occupy UPenn building originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News May 18, 2024 19:17 UTC