A teaching assistant at a Brooklyn elementary school says he was fired after he was arrested while protesting outside of Columbia University during last month’s encampment demonstration. James Parra, who worked as a paraprofessional at Brooklyn Arbor Elementary School in Williamsburg, was helping lead a protest on 115th Street and Broadway outside of the embattled campus on April 22 in support of students who had set up camp on the grounds when he was taken into custody. Parra was chanting while a cohort banged a drum near a locked gate. Click here to read more on AMNY.com.
