More than a dozen students face quick suspension after a protest at Pomona College on Friday. 

According to student-led activist group Pomona Divest Apartheid, the demonstrators have been protesting the removing of a “mock apartheid wall” that was created by students on Pomona College’s Marston Quad. 

“Eight days after students at the Claremont Colleges erected a mock apartheid wall on Marston Quad, college administration forcefully removed the students’ piece of protest art,” Pomona Divest Apartheid stated in a media assertion. “The apartheid wall was an installation art piece intended to ‘illuminate Pomona College’s complicity in the face of an illegal occupation and genocide’.” 

Video of the protest at Alexander Hall taken by Samson Zhang exhibits law enforcement officials detaining demonstrators and escorting them down a staircase. 

The faculty’s president says that the students refused to determine themselves and verbally harassed workers, together with utilizing anti-Black racial slurs when chatting with an administrator. 

Students from the opposite Claremont Colleges may even be banned from Pomona’s campus and topic to self-discipline on their very own campuses.

An Instagram publish from Pomona Divest Apartheid signifies that 20 students have been arrested, 19 of whom have been charged with trespassing and one with obstruction of justice. 

All 20 students had been launched from police custody by 12:20 a.m. Saturday, the group stated. 

KTLA has reached out to Pomona College for remark however have but to obtain a reply.