At least 40 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested on Yale University campus, school newspaper reports
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Those arrested face charges of trespassing, a Class A misdemeanor, Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell told the campus news publication Monday morning. Campbell said they would be released after processing.
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Journalists from the publication were also threatened with arrest if they did not move from the plaza, the independent campus newspaper said.
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CNN has reached out to Yale University administration, the Yale Police Department and the New Haven Police Department in Connecticut for more information.
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