Police On My Back

Whose school? Theirs, apparently.

On Tuesday night at approximately 11 p.m. more than 50 New York Police Department officers and about 30 police cars flooded the south side of Washington Square Park, setting up barricades that stretched from the entrance of Bobst Library to the Kimmel Center.

Though some early reports from police officers at the scene identified the action as an anti-terrorism drill, NYU spokesman John Beckman confirmed otherwise. Because of some discussion among students at the New School that there would be a protest outside of Bobst and "given the turn the protest took outside Kimmel last time," he said, the administration took “due precaution” to protect the university.

Officers at the scene confirmed that the university had asked the NYPD to come out and protect the campus, though they were under the impression that it would be a CUNY or SUNY demonstration and that it would occur at 12 a.m.