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Wesley, 39, is serving a life sentence in a Florida penitentiary. Natonia’s fiancée is also incarcerated at Rikers Island Correctional Facility in Queens, N.Y., where he has been awaiting trial since 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/f6642dce-8a5c-4965-9d20-c93ec0fc7b4c/Bayram-003.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Natonia Dutes speaks on the phone at home in East Harlem, New York, N.Y. on December 27, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/c0cc59dd-4851-4b80-8946-15f39bf11d62/Bayram-004.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Malachi Davidson speaks to criminal justice and education reform advocates at the New York State Capitol as part of the #FREEnewyork Advocacy Day in Albany, N.Y. on January 14, 2019. Activists and families impacted by mass incarceration travelled from the five boroughs and across New York State to demand an overhaul of the bail and pretrial detention system. The event was organized by Just Leadership USA and the Alliance for Quality Education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/d14e9e85-653b-4b5c-9035-8c12ce38f4dc/Bayram-005.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Two men bail their cousin out at David Jakab Bail Bonds on 83 Baxter Street in New York, N.Y. on February 1, 2019. There are several bail bonds offices in this area, located across from the Manhattan Criminal Court and the Manhattan Detention Complex. The bail industry, which is dominated by 10 multinational insurance corporations, is estimated to be worth $2 billion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/24158462-d0f2-4fee-9d4d-1154f64cfb06/Bayram-006.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Kyrie De Roche, 22, rides the Q100 bus back home from Rikers Island Correctional Facility in Queens, N.Y. on December 23, 2018, after returning to the jail to retrieve his belongings. De Roche spent three months at Rikers, where he was held on $25,000 bail. A judge later reduced his bail to $19,000 and Kyrie was bailed out by his family shortly before Christmas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/88f34103-b272-4788-afec-0d835e3579e3/Bayram-007.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Kyrie De Roche smokes a cigarette outside of the Manhattan Criminal Court before his post-release court appearance on January 9, 2019. De Roche was released on $19,000 bail from Rikers Island Correctional Facility on December 18, 2018 after serving three months at the jail. His post-release requirements include a 10:00pm daily curfew and frequent check-ins with his case worker and bail bondsman, which will determine his future prospects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/fd4cfb7d-539d-45d9-8f3d-bd14c876617f/Bayram-008.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out The exterior of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. on February 3, 2019, after electricity was partially restored in some jail cells. People locked up inside had been banging on windows and waving flashlights to communicate with families and friends who were demonstrating outside of the jail for several days after learning that the jail had been without hot water and heat for at least two weeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/37604ad2-fae9-4181-9dad-e7d5e47fab18/Bayram-009.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Families, friends, activists, and elected officials join in prayer during a demonstration outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. on February 3, 2019. The federal jail came under national scrutiny when reports surfaced that the people inside had been without hot water and heat during frigid winter temperatures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/951fbd3d-d463-420b-b7cc-e7b0315303f1/Bayram-010.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Protestors demonstrating outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. on February 3, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/6ffdf047-ada0-40e2-8a63-671feaf52698/Bayram-011.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Families holding up hand-painted signs to communicate with their loved ones outside of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. on February 3, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/65b2f2e6-2cb1-4031-8a82-589ed94146e0/Bayram-012.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Cynthia Thomas sits in her bedroom in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, N.Y. on February 8, 2019. Her son, Charles "Poppy" Thomas has been incarcerated, awaiting trial, at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, since January 2016. Cynthia has been denied visits with her son since the summer of 2018. She has additional relatives incarcerated at MDC. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/3876c891-54a0-445c-88e6-a39ab9769d8d/Bayram-013.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out A Department of Corrections bus to Riker's Island Correctional Facility leaves its pick-up location at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem, Manhattan, N.Y. on March 6, 2019. The D.O.C. began providing this free bus service in April 2018 as an alternative to the MTA's Q100 bus to Rikers Island, which departs from Queens and, until the D.O.C. bus, was the only public transit to the jail. There is another D.O.C. Rikers bus pick-up location in downtown Brooklyn. There are 8 daily departure times from Harlem on Wednesdays through Sundays, which are the visitation days for friends and family of incarcerated loved ones. It takes the D.O.C. bus approximately 45 minutes to get to Rikers Island from Harlem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/7fda3927-016d-49ec-8552-8e61b30330a2/Bayram-014.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out A young woman boards the Department of Corrections bus to Rikers Island Correctional Facility at its pick-up location on Jay Street, between Fulton and Willoughby Streets in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. on March 6, 2019. There is another D.O.C. Rikers bus pick-up location in East Harlem. From Brooklyn, it takes 1 hour to get to Rikers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/12e28435-22b0-4fa8-9219-d941a18df706/Bayram-015.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out A woman and child board the Department of Corrections bus to Rikers Island Correctional Facility at its pick-up location in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y. on March 6, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/12991635-eb06-4475-ac20-0b481f0a8643/Bayram-016.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Tommy Vandetta, 23, sits on his bed at home in East Harlem, New York, N.Y. on March 9, 2019. Tommy's father has been held on $50,000 bail at Rikers Island Correctional Facility since December 2017. He’s been incarcerated for most of Tommy’s life, beginning when he was three, when he was sentenced to 18 years in an upstate penitentiary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/5a669a52-817c-4f9c-bf10-928c8c7ce72e/Bayram-017.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Tommy Vandetta holds a bottle of Royal Bain De Caron Champagne Cologne at his home in East Harlem, New York, N.Y. on March 9, 2019. Though he doesn't have many memories of being with his dad, he remembers his father's scent, which sits in a bottle on his mother's bedside table. Tommy’s father has been locked up since he was three years old. He was released when Tommy was 21 but rearrested shortly after on a parole violation. He is detained at Rikers, where he is awaiting trial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/4641519b-1d31-49ce-b92c-5ca844c4d0e3/Bayram-018.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Marco Barrios, 52, reads a poem while seated on his bed at his home in Woodside, Queens, N.Y. on January 26, 2019. The poem is about him and was written by his daughter, who was conceived during Marcos’s incarceration. Marco served a consecutive 24-and-a-half-year-long sentence in New York State prisons. He has been out of prison since 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/edc6b4e9-5e0d-4dc6-ac2a-7f5c6d1fe25e/Bayram-019.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Marco Barrios sits in his home in Woodside, Queens, N.Y. on January 26, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/49d1630e-fbcf-485e-ba42-c30472bbd331/Bayram-020.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out An old photograph displayed in Marco Barrios’s home in Woodside, Queens, N.Y. on January 26, 2019. The photograph depicts a young Marco Barrios (right) with his mother and father in the family's home in Red Hook, Brooklyn, N.Y. Marco's father left the family when Marco was a child. A painful childhood, combined with his experiences as a veteran during the Gulf War, left Marco with undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. He turned to drugs to cope, which contributed to his eventual incarceration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/d3d9dc07-1070-4e12-9829-4465cbc1dbb0/Bayram-021.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Polaroids of Marcos and his daughter displayed in his home in Woodside, Queens, N.Y. on January 26, 2019. The photographs were taken in upstate N.Y. prisons, years apart, during Marco's 24-and-a-half-year-long incarceration. He has been out of prison since 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/4a071ae7-7523-4fda-a365-9ecdec4920f2/Bayram-022.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Chakira Fontana, 22, rides the Q100 bus to Rikers Island Correctional Facility to visit her boyfriend David on December 23, 2019. David is incarcerated at Rikers Island, where he is awaiting trial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/41bfe6a4-b42d-4674-bb3d-902ba4f06ab2/Bayram-023.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Left: Chakira Fontana in her apartment on the Lower East Side, New York, N.Y. on January 8, 2019. Right: A photograph of a young Chakira Fontana and her father displayed in her home on the Lower East Side, New York, N.Y. on January 8, 2019. The photograph was taken in an upstate New York prison, where Chakira's father served a 12-year-sentence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/38fdddb1-0d27-4d01-8b38-aeeca6372077/Bayram-024.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Chakira Fontana and her one-and-a-half-year-old son Ryan inside of their apartment on the Lower East Side, New York, N.Y. on January 4, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/b4bee5e1-94ba-4b94-9b79-5e2309dfc757/Bayram-025.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Chakira Fontana scrolls through her phone while her son Ryan looks on at their home on the Lower East Side, New York, N.Y. on January 4, 2019. Shortly before, Chakira was trying to get on a call with David, her boyfriend who is incarcerated at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, but she was unsuccessful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/d2cf38d7-ab99-4e43-926c-711aa875ae4f/Bayram-026.jpg family bonds - Make it stand out Chakira Fontana holds her son Ryan at their home in the Lower East Side, New York, N.Y. on January 4, 2019. https://seymabayram.com/voters-with-disabilities daily 0.75 2022-01-01 https://seymabayram.com/black-voter-turnout daily 0.75 2022-02-07 https://seymabayram.com/abortion-main daily 0.75 2025-11-25 https://seymabayram.com/abortion-history daily 0.75 2025-01-27 https://seymabayram.com/abortion-demographics daily 0.75 2025-01-27 https://seymabayram.com/abortion-debate daily 0.75 2025-01-27 https://seymabayram.com/columbia-university-encampment daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/7c86135e-0f19-41f8-9804-b4289ce160bd/ColumbiaFINAL-1.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mich.) visits the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/08c8d672-db98-48cc-bf89-019482c1e491/ColumbiaFINAL-7.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Students deliver speeches and read in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/67fefec9-07ba-4313-9baa-8fe01fb0e052/ColumbiaFINAL-6.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out A student reads a book in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/5f96d9f0-2ff1-43e1-8601-9602515915dd/ColumbiaFINAL-10.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out White Christian nationalist and pro-Israel activists protest outside of Columbia University’s gates at Amsterdam Ave. and 116th St. on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/fd5017ba-d1cd-4108-8f1f-7ddbd66521ce/Columbia-17.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out White Christian nationalist and pro-Israel activists protest outside of Columbia University’s gates at Amsterdam Ave. and 116th St. on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/6e61140e-e665-4fe7-9e12-67e51664169f/ColumbiaFINAL2-1.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Pro-Palestine activists protest outside of Columbia University’s gates at Amsterdam Ave. and 116th St. on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/0305ec37-502d-48d0-8837-5c53aeaf30d1/ColumbiaFINAL2-3.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Pro-Palestine activists protest outside of Columbia University’s gates at Amsterdam Ave. and 116th St. on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/f24a4655-2f07-43db-b5c9-b0a3e38205cf/ColumbiaFINAL2-5.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out White Christian nationalist and pro-Israel activists climb the gates of Columbia University on Amsterdam Ave. and 116th St. on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/22b2b5d8-c1de-4119-b9b2-32b47ce68321/ColumbiaFINAL2-6.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out The “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University on April 25, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/210d4259-fb66-4982-801f-935218229e3b/8C819C48-288B-4848-B5A8-561D522C733F.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students gather for a picket organized by the Student Workers Union (UAW Local 2710) on April 29, 2024, after Columbia University administrators began to suspend students in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” The student activists marched and chanted around the encampment in 80-degree weather while Columbia faculty protected its entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/4a07e968-b495-4189-a3d8-87224b0a1193/8D673F5D-2F15-4BBC-8495-734B0B8C0AF5.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students gather for a picket organized by the Student Workers Union (UAW Local 2710) on April 29, 2024, after Columbia University administrators began to suspend students in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” The student activists marched and chanted around the encampment in 80-degree weather while Columbia faculty protected its entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/67a31605-a72f-44b3-9c3d-269593db5ec3/383250CE-45B5-4D9E-80D7-ADD748345A37.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students gather for a picket organized by the Student Workers Union (UAW Local 2710) on April 29, 2024, after Columbia University administrators began to suspend students in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” The student activists marched and chanted around the encampment in 80-degree weather while Columbia faculty protected its entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/2369455a-97f1-4df8-8a6e-f7dc2db76aca/A41D2006-D9C7-4614-A475-49B5CD8E06CE.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students gather for a picket organized by the Student Workers Union (UAW Local 2710) on April 29, 2024, after Columbia University administrators began to suspend students in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” The student activists marched and chanted around the encampment in 80-degree weather while Columbia faculty protected its entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/4b0a733f-1a2f-4188-af27-c46db595e6bc/887D6778-31B0-47E9-8A67-D744E9C5B124.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students gather for a picket organized by the Student Workers Union (UAW Local 2710) on April 29, 2024, after Columbia University administrators began to suspend students in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” The student activists marched and chanted around the encampment in 80-degree weather while Columbia faculty protected its entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/33b9b223-fe9a-43d9-9d31-0c6b08ea93ca/Bayram_PART+2+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-32.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University student activists on April 29, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/b32f17d5-3915-4345-87e3-a245ef9488f1/Bayram_PART+2+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-30.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University student activists and faculty stand outside of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on April 29, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/fe6304e6-bc88-4be7-8bb9-daea14faddb0/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-21.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students occupy Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, 2024. This is the same building that Columbia students occupied in 1968, during the anti-Vietnam War protests on campus. After barricading themselves into the building, the protestors draped a Palestinian flag and a sign reading “Hinds Hall” — a reference to Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old Palestinian girl who pleaded for medical help before dying in January. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/d3240c62-64a0-4d90-a326-3401b540659b/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-5.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out A Columbia University student tries to stop fellow students from occupying Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/3bf8aefa-308b-4bfe-970f-188126543879/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-8.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students occupy Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/22fc8439-39a6-48cb-9abf-c1e969bca976/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-3.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University students occupy Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/5ffaac78-9e44-41f8-910a-a371ae31d38b/Bayram_PART+2+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-34.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University student activists following the occupation of Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/2ca3bf4d-91d0-4e63-adb2-6eb88bb3602d/Bayram_PART+2+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-37.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University student activists following the occupation of Hamilton Hall in the early hours of April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/a4fc0569-074b-4354-921b-14273dcd7315/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-31.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Student activists sleep on the lawns after setting up another encampment in front of Lewisohn Hall at Columbia University on April 30, 2024, hours after the occupation of Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/562eb09a-c6a5-484d-a4c5-6eba4a3f7d25/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-28.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Student activists set up another encampment in front of Lewisohn Hall at Columbia University on April 30, 2024, hours after the occupation of Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/55e8ec26-e4a0-42a3-ac72-38a57718847c/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-29.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Columbia University on April 30, 2024, hours after the occupation of Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/79de0dda-76e1-4e22-b667-0c1ff224b46c/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-37.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out A door at Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on April 30, 2024, hours after student protestors occupied the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/a568c979-b340-4453-8659-3d128611b3de/Bayram_PART+1+Columbia+University+April+29-30+2024-40.JPG columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Student activists sit outside of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on April 30, 2024, hours after student protestors occupied the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/6d93d7ef-6f21-4159-8e34-78195353ffae/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-1.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out New York Police Department officers set up barricades in front of a gate to Columbia University on 114th St. between Amsterdam and Broadway Aves. on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik authorized the NYPD to enter campus to dismantle encampments by Pro-Palestine students and to remove individuals occupying Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/57fbc3ce-2c0f-42d5-9a96-1f0c6c41a3ea/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-2.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Students in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on Columbia University’s West Lawn gather for a meeting on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024 shortly before New York Police Department officers stormed the campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/6c1a4884-1f95-4242-8874-798b29ddd545/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-3.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Pro-Palestine students occupy Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. The students locked arms, sang and chanted as they braced for New York Police Department officers to raid campus after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called on the NYPD to dismantle encampments and remove individuals from Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/295a223b-f44a-4052-93dc-7aefdca8ad39/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-4.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Pro-Palestine students occupy Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. The students locked arms, sang and chanted as they braced for New York Police Department officers to raid campus after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called on the NYPD to dismantle encampments and remove individuals from Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/d24caca6-f66c-4299-8325-6fd9b0be38e8/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-5.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Pro-Palestine students occupy Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. The students locked arms, sang and chanted as they braced for New York Police Department officers to raid campus after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called on the NYPD to dismantle encampments and remove individuals from Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/36956644-2bdc-425d-bef7-4fb4e360e8f1/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-6.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Pro-Palestine students occupy Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. The students locked arms, sang and chanted as they braced for New York Police Department officers to raid campus after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called on the NYPD to dismantle encampments and remove individuals from Hamilton Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/81a201a1-fe63-4847-9fc1-2e709e0b07e6/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-9.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Officers with the New York Police Department raid Columbia University’s campus and disperse Pro-Palestine students and protestors occupying Hamilton Hall on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/7010bee2-afd5-4f52-9052-92a6b643c1f3/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-10.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Pro-Palestine student activists face off with New York Police Department officers during the raid on Columbia University’s campus at the request of Columbia University President Minouche Shafik on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/7d921724-9e02-421b-8e74-73dffc9f149a/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-11+%281%29.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out Officers with the New York Police Department raid Columbia University’s campus and disperse Pro-Palestine students and protestors occupying Hamilton Hall on Tuesday evening, April 30, 2024. The officers also removed journalists covering the raid from campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/da54a63a-a897-4147-b923-485188341c84/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-12+%281%29.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out New York Police Department officers arrest Pro-Palestinian demonstrators and place them on buses on 114th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Tuesday night, April 30, 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/7cbfc66f-519f-448a-b5de-3531fb3b9f13/Bayram_Columbia+NYPD+Raid-14.jpg columbia encampment and raid - Make it stand out New York Police Department officers arrest Pro-Palestinian demonstrators on 114th Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Tuesday night, April 30, 2024 as onlookers watch. https://seymabayram.com/ukraine daily 0.75 2025-07-08 https://seymabayram.com/pagehc daily 0.75 2025-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/18f1119c-3233-4beb-9233-8a9bff80f3f3/Picture1.png HC - Make it stand out Screenshot of photo; photo originally published here: https://apnews.com/article/biden-silence-college-protests-police-gaza-israel-d5f3092671951c3bc2968b8751c93ba6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/1c197566-bb22-4c01-b834-603b5cacba50/Picture2.png HC - Make it stand out Screenshot of photo; photo originally published here: https://apnews.com/article/campus-protests-student-journalists-b9ff00a494cdb69d45bd1f99db28288b https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/74016353-edca-410b-b4ea-8c232cd08077/Picture3.png HC - Make it stand out Screenshot of photo; photo originally published here: https://apnews.com/article/campus-protests-student-journalists-b9ff00a494cdb69d45bd1f99db28288b https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/11feae26-382d-4c78-8024-e24f31d27059/Picture4.png HC - Make it stand out Screenshot of photo; photo originally published here: https://apnews.com/article/columbia-protests-eric-adams-outsiders-5319fdf36599295a3840d77c69458b57 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/9e1b6a3d-692e-4efe-9a7f-db2ac0adf636/Picture5.png HC - Make it stand out Screenshot of photo; photo originally published here: https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-campus-student-protests-war-beb2c274c0960eee48c82485ca9b3f96 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/886002ba-08bf-4df5-afff-e00a1849a92e/Picture6.png HC - Make it stand out Screenshot of photo; photo republished here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/columbia-investigation-amid-allegations-anti-palestinian-discrimination/story?id=109901272 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/1fa15a04-04e0-4e08-b06a-98848371b1e6/Picture7.png HC - Make it stand out Screenshot of photo; photo republished here: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/18/1251915545/pro-palestinian-protests-students-interview-columbia-cuny-hunter-nyc https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/ec2e5c1d-15d9-4c98-acfa-3c114aa5bf7e/Picture8.png HC - Make it stand out CNN also published my photographs, which you can view here: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/us/gallery/university-campus-protests-gaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b78d3795ffd20862324c3c1/965a813b-1dd2-478b-b4f5-9a4820694dc5/Picture9.png HC - Make it stand out CNN also published my photographs, which you can view here: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/25/us/gallery/university-campus-protests-gaza