HANOVER, N.H. — Police in Hanover, New Hampshire, said 90 people were arrested at Dartmouth College while protesting the conflict in the Middle East.
Dartmouth's security team was expecting a student protest Wednesday, Hanover police chief Charles Dennis said in a release Thursday.
Security officials had said encampments would not be allowed, so, once tents went up, protesters were asked to leave, according to Dennis. At that point Hanover police officers and New Hampshire state troopers started breaking up the crowd, the release stated.
Those who refused to leave were arrested for criminal trespass. Others face charges for resisting arrest. Dennis said the arrestees included Dartmouth students and non-Dartmouth students.
New Hampshire State Police said in a social media post that troopers also responded to a demonstration at the University of New Hampshire Wednesday night.
A student protest movement has washed over the country since police first tried to end an encampment at Columbia University in New York nearly two weeks ago.