New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Wednesday that “outside agitators” involved in the pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University are attempting “to radicalize young people” across the country.

Adams, in a press conference on the day after New York Police Department officers entered Columbia’s Hamilton Hall and other buildings to remove protesters, pushed back on claims that the protests are student-led.

“There were those who came to the city to disrupt our city,” Adams said, adding that NYPD Intelligence and Counterterrorism Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Weiner found following an investigation that “outside agitators” are helping organize the protests at Columbia.

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