Katrina Armstrong said police sweeps caused ‘harm,’ pledges to develop ‘meaningful engagement’ with protesters seeking Israel divestment
Columbia University’s new interim president, Katrina Armstrong, apologized for the “harm” caused by police sweeps used to clear unruly and illegal encampments and to remove students who had broken into and occupied a campus building in the spring. “I know it wasn’t me, but I’m really sorry,” she said.
In an interview with the Columbia Daily Spectator, the school’s student newspaper, Armstrong asked the paper to “just let everybody know who was hurt by that, that I’m just incredibly sorry.”
“I know that this is tricky for me to say, but I do understand that I sit in this job, right. And so if you could just let everybody know who…
