Northwestern University students build encampment on Deering Meadow in pro-Palestinian protest| LIVE

EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) — Northwestern University pro-Palestinian students began setting up an encampment on campus grounds on Thursday.

Chopper 7 captured students setting up tents and creating signs on Deering Meadow around 7:30 a.m.

This comes as dozens of students were arrested across the country in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Police arrested 93 people on and around the University of Southern California campus, mostly on misdemeanor trespass Wednesday night.

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Last week, USC canceled the valedictorian’s speech out of safety concerns considering her pro-Palestinian views, sparking backlash. The student, Asna Tabassum, is a first-generation South Asian-American Muslim who majored in biomedical engineering and minored in resistance to genocide, according to a statement published through the Greater Los

Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

At the University of Texas in Austin, police aggressively detained dozens protesting the Israel-Hamas.

The actions across the U.S. came after Columbia University averted another confrontation between students and police earlier in the day.