COLLEGE PROTEST PAMPHLET TEACHES RIOTERS 'HOW TO OVERPOWER POLICE'

• A pamphlet reportedly circulated among University of Wisconsin pro-Palestine student protesters appears to show how to overcome police during an arrest
• Pro-Palestine protesters have been in a tense stand-off with police on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for several days 
• So far 34 students have been arrested at the college as student protests across the country continue to clash with law enforcement 

A pamphlet reportedly circulated among University of Wisconsin pro-Palestine student protesters appears to show how to overcome police during an arrest.

The pro-Palestine protesters have been in a tense stand-off with police on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus for several days. 

Police have made several arrests at the encampment where students are demanding the university cuts ties with Israel. 

The 'De-Arrest Primer' pamphlet, first reported by Maclver News Service, offers tips on how to be 'unarrested' such as breaking an officer's grip and claims that resisting arrest is a 'micro-intifada.' 

'A de-arrest, aka an unarrest, is the act of freeing someone who has been seized by LAW Enforcement Officers (LEO)' the pamphlet's introduction explains. 

'A de-arrest can look like physically removing an arrestee from LEO's grip, opening the door of a car, or pressuring LEOs to release an arrestee' it goes on to explain. 

'Being arrested can have drastic negative life altering affects, especially for targeted populations like people who aren't white, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and certain radicals. 

'It follows then that reversing an arrest can be well worth the risks involved.' 

One such tactic advised in the booklet is described as 'pulling and pushing an officer off an arrestee and/or breaking their grip on an arrestee.' 

In discussing the supposed benefits of de-arrests the booklet argues that each one is a 'shaking off' of a 'micro-intifada' which can spread and inspire other until we may finally shake off this noxious ruling order all together.' 

So far 34 students have been arrested in relation to protests at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to WKOW. 

The encampment was largely dismantled after police action on Wednesday, but tents are currently being reassembled on Library Mall. 

Protesters met with Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin on Friday following administrators pledge to offer a day without police on campus, WKOW reported. 

However, no agreement has yet been met, the outlet reported following a student press conference.

Protesters are pushing for the university to pressure the UW Foundation to disclose and divest from all companies 'profiting off the war in Gaza.'

'Campus leaders continue to engage with student protestors in an effort to bring this situation to a resolution,' a UW-Madison spokesperson said in a statement. 

It comes as protests at college's around the country have become increasingly heated, as students class with university administrators and law enforcement.

At Columbia University in New York more than 100 protesters were arrested by the NYPD after they occupied Hamilton Hall. 

Around 40 protesters were arrested on the first floor of the building after police swooped just after 9pm on Tuesday ending the pro-Palestine encampment that stretched on for nearly two weeks.

Columbia's President Minouche Shafik called in the NYPD in to 'restore order and safety' to the campus amid the escalating protests, which also included a massive encampment on the school's lawns.

The raid saw demonstrators arrested across the campus and at nearby City College New York, where similar protests unfolded.

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