Only one of the 46 people arrested after New York City Police used a show of excessive force to storm a Columbia University building occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters remains charged, NBC News reports, and that individual is being held on previously filed charges.
The DA’s office told 31 of the people arrested at Hamilton Hall on the downtown campus that no charges would be filed against them. Another 14 were told any potential charges would be dropped if they aren’t arrested for the next six months.
The final remaining detainee, James Carlson, was being held on other charges, including stealing and burning an Israeli flag he had taken from an opposition protestor. Like a dozen others of those arrested, Carlson has no known connection to Columbia University.