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Protesters show up at campus encampment created for TV program

FILE - An actual protest encampment on the Columbia University campus, April 29, 2024, in New York. In July, crews filming an episode of "FBI: Most Wanted" used a mock encampment at Queens College, which attracted protesters who said their movement was being trivialized.

Television crews erected a fictional protest encampment at Queens College while filing an episode of “FBI: Most Wanted,” but real protesters weren’t pleased with the storyline.

Writing in The New York Times, Claire Fahy explains that members of two pro-Palestinian groups felt the show was trivializing their movement, so they gathered nearby and handed out flyers to protest. (July 2024)