20 Arrested After Pro-Palestinian Protesters Storm California College President’s Office

CLAREMONT, Calif.—The president of a California college said April 6 demonstrators in a pro-Palestinian protest that led to 20 arrests on her campus should be immediately suspended if they are found to be students at the institution. An ongoing protest at Pomona College in Claremont April 5 escalated when about 30 to 40 pro-Palestinian protesters stormed Campus President G. Gabrielle Starr’s office, leading to a standoff and the eventual arrests, authorities said Saturday. The president said on Friday all students participating in the event were “subject to immediate suspension” and other participants from outside the college were immediately “banned” from the campus. Alexander Hall at Pomona Collage in Claremont, Calif., in 2022. (Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times) ” … Students then, under false pretenses, entered Alexander Hall, and are occupying my office,” Ms. Starr wrote in a message to the community on Friday. “Any participants in today’s events on the SCC lawn or in Alexander Hall, who turn out to be Pomona students, are subject to immediate suspension. Students from the other Claremont Colleges will be banned from Pomona’s campus and subject to discipline on their own campuses. All individual participants not part of The Claremont Colleges community are hereby banned from campus immediately.”...