The New York Police Department said that Columbia University administrators haven’t asked for their assistance after the agency made over 100 arrests on Thursday.

During a press conference, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters Mike Gerber said that the law enforcement agency hasn’t been asked back on campus after it made over 100 arrests on Thursday.

The protest was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, and several others. They began a tent encampment on the Columbia lawn on Wednesday just before university leadership testified at a Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism.

”So there has been a small number of instances in connection with some protests on campus where there was a request for police presence,” stating that Columbia administrators have asked for police assistance on October 12, 2023 and on Thursday. “So the university makes decisions about who they let on their campus we’re dealing with on their campus for, you know, they’re doing their own analysis making their own decisions making their own safety determinations. That’s not us.”