Mayor Adams demands Columbia University help pay for cost of NYPD raid on pro-terror rioters

Columbia University and other private colleges should cough up and help foot the bill for the NYPD having to swarm the Ivy League campus and crackdown on pro-terror protests, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday.

Hizzoner addressed the cost to Big Apple taxpayers after cops were finally called in to help oust a destructive mob that had illegally taken over Columbia’s Hamilton Hall academic building late Tuesday and to clear out an encampment on the school’s iconic lawn.

“We believe that they, too, should contribute to the cost,” the mayor told FOX5 when asked whether the Ivy League school should have to open its checkbook in the wake of the massive operation.

“One way to prevent the costs from escalating is to have a zero tolerance. As soon as the tents go up, it comes down. Do not allow this to continue to expand. That is what we saw at Columbia University and that is what we saw at CUNY as well.”

In dramatic scenes out of Columbia, cops were forced to position a ramp against the school’s historic building so scores of officers could enter through second-floor windows after rioters sealed themselves inside.

Meanwhile, over at the City College of New York campus in Harlem, cops were forced to endure violent scenes as they clashed with unruly protesters.