Police Clear Pro-Palestinian Encampment at Penn

The Philadelphia Police Department cleared an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators off the campus of the University of Pennsylvania early Friday morning, making arrests and bringing an end to a two-week standoff between administrators and protesting students.Video from the scene, shot by one of the protesters, showed a group of protesters on College Green near a statue of Benjamin Franklin, encircled by police in riot gear. Police sealed off Locust Walk with barricades and closed part of Walnut Street to traffic. Some protesters were taken away in police vans. Exactly how many…