Two IU facilities operations workers power wash the sidewalk to remove painted symbols and messages from the pro-Palestine encampment Aug. 1, 2024, in Dunn Meadow. The new expressive policy activity approved earlier in the week prohibited painting on university property, including sidewalks. Two signs state the rules of a recently passed expressive activity policy Aug. 1, 2024, in Dunn Meadow. IU placed the signs in the meadow Wednesday. A tent sits by a garden in Dunn Meadow as a part of the pro-Palestine encampment Aug. 1, 2024. Protesters established the garden in May as part of its Mother's Day activities. Painted pro-Palestine symbols and statements mark the sidewalk that runs through Dunn Meadow on Aug. 1, 2024. IU facilities operations workers power washed many of the painted marks off the sidewalk. A painted image reading, "you fund police violence" and depicting an Indiana State Police with a sniper rifle on the roof of the Indiana Memorial Union sits on the sidewalk that runs through Dunn Meadow on Aug. 1, 2024. A photo of the officer with the rifle on the IMU from the April 25 arrests in Dunn Meadow received widespread backlash online. A sign summarizing IU's new expressive activity policy sits behind the fence around Dunn Meadow on Aug. 2, 2024. The signs were planted after the IU Board of Trustees approved the new policy at a meeting July 29 to go into effect Aug. 1. Dunn Meadow is seen at 10:37 a.m. Aug. 2, 2024 from the east side, on the corner of Seventh Street and Indiana Avenue. Workers began to put up fencing around Dunn Meadow earlier in the morning, and had enclosed most of the meadow by this time. An IU maintenance excavator begins to dig up a garden structure from the pro-Palestine encampment in Dunn Meadow on Aug. 2, 2024. The memorial garden was built by the pro-Palestine protesters for Mother's Day on May 12, 2024, to honor those who had lost their mothers and mothers who had lost their children in Gaza. Sidewalk paint reading "IU 'heart's genocide," is seen on the sidewalk near Dunn Meadow on Aug. 2, 2024, with the word "genocide" mostly washed away. IU maintenance began to power-wash the pro-Palestine encampment's painted slogans off the ground around Dunn Meadow the morning of Aug. 1, the day IU's new expressive activity policy went into effect. Dunn Meadow is seen from the west side at 10:28 a.m. on Aug. 2, 2024. The meadow by this time had been mostly fenced in, and IU maintenance workers were removing plants from the west side near the Indiana Memorial Union.
PHOTOS: Before and after the pro-Palestine encampment removal
A sign reading, "visit Palestine unless you're Palestinian" and tents sit Aug. 1, 2024, in the Dunn Meadow encampment. Protesters removed some signs, including the one pictured, before the university cleared the encampment Friday.
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