Crime UW reports more than $1 million in damages to engineering building after pro-Palestinian occupation

UW reports more than $1 million in damages to engineering building after pro-Palestinian occupation​

By Morgan Bortnick and Sofia Schwarzwalder
The Daily UW - May 7, 2025
7 hrs ago

UW officials are reporting significant damage to the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB) following a pro-Palestinian occupation protest Monday night. The sit-in saw the arrest of more than 30 demonstrators.

The university opened the building to the press for a walkthrough Tuesday afternoon after staff had spent time cleaning spray paint and other vandalism off the walls. UW officials estimated more than $1 million in damages to a single room downstairs that houses brand-new machinery.

Protesters called for the university to cut ties with Boeing, criticizing the company’s role in defense machinery. The multi-hour occupation ended when dozens of police in riot gear broke through protesters’ barricades and arrested demonstrators inside.

After police cleared the building, staff reportedly discovered the damage to the multi-story building, including vandalism, obstruction of key access points, and destruction of specialized classroom equipment.

While inside the building Tuesday afternoon a reporter with The Daily saw the door to a classroom on the second floor was ripped off of the hinges, and doorways were sealed shut with epoxy glue, leaving entrances to a main stairway and building exits inaccessible. Throughout the building, graffiti could be seen painted on the walls reading “Boeing is the #1 weapons manufacturer to Israel, this building is NOT,” and “Boeing kills.”

The “machine shop” classroom located in the IEB’s basement includes various Haas Automation, Inc. computer numerical control (CNC) machines used to educate and train students in various manufacturing skills.

[photo] Two unused VF4SS Haas Automation CNC machines with shattered windows sit in the machine room at the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building on May 6, 2025, in Seattle. Pro-palestinian demonstrators affiliated with SUPER UW occupied the building the previous day and were removed and detained by police as late as 2:30 AM. (photo by Sean Fan)

The glass doors attached to each machine were smashed, leaving shattered glass on the floor of the workshop space. The classroom includes two vertical mill CNC machines, which have a base price of $101,995 with additional features that cost upwards of $40,000.

A Haas CNC lathe machine, a tool that rotates an item while a cutting tool shapes it, has a base price of $120,995 with various additional rotary features that can cost an additional $30,000.

UW is still calculating the total cost of repairs, and classes scheduled in the space have been temporarily relocated for the remainder of the week.

The Daily’s coverage on this topic is ongoing.

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[Argos]

Expel the students at the least, charge any non-students and DO NOT allow bail.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Expel the students at the least, charge any non-students and DO NOT allow bail.

They don’t have money.

Just remove federal funding and let them deal with the insurance carriers.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

Send them all to Palestine and let them rot.

 

[LemonMice]

I love how the left wing is actual competent and takes action unlike the right wing which sadly just seethes.

If left wing politics magically turned pro-white, then the invasive populations problem would be solved in around 4 years.

 

[The Secret Sauce]

Send them back to the university, erect barricades around the campus, and begin a blockade. Universities helped create this wave of lunatic 20-somethings who have been terrorizing the rest of the country for a decade. If they go to prison, they'll be on a bus to the next "peaceful protest" the day after they're released, just like Joseph Rosenbaum. Just lock them in a confined space with the professors who radicalized them, and enjoy the show.

 

[JohnnyG]

If left wing politics magically turned pro-white

The basis of modern Leftism is creating a coalition of dysgenic freaks, Spiteful Mutants united in their hatred of the Straight, White, Christian, Male, or Western.

Turning left wing politics "Pro-White" makes as much sense as saying, "if Chaos became pro-Order..."

 

[blackface enthusiast]

I love how the left wing is actual competent and takes action unlike the right wing which sadly just seethes.

Because they're actually allowed to do this. Right wing organization is always infiltrated by feds and subverted for more gun control/etc.

 

[pwnest injun]

There's a kind of irony in them trying to destroy a building because Boeing built it, but I can't really make a proper joke of it.

In communist Washington... something something... you!

 

[That Guy Who Likes The Chili]

I love how the left wing is actual competent and takes action unlike the right wing which sadly just seethes.

If left wing politics magically turned pro-white, then the invasive populations problem would be solved in around 4 years.

#1 reason I never protest or attemp to organize protests.

I work. Constantly. I'm always working. All my friends who share my political opinions they are also always working. Whenever I see protests, during the day, I'm driving by them on my way to work wondering who the fuck these people are that have all this free time for protesting.

I have a healthy amount of vacation days, but I usually use them for family time and doctors visits and things that responsible adults do.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Jews shilling for diversity backfiring on them yet again. Leftists done more damage to Jews in the west than /pol/ could ever dream of.

 

[Stoneheart]

imagine you have government money and you still buy Haas CNC machines.
those are so bad that not even the chinks want to copy them...

 

[TowinKarz]

takes action

Yes, smashing CNC machines will definitely get you the foreign policy you want......

 

[Snekposter]

Yes, smashing CNC machines will definitely get you the foreign policy you want......

He said it was action, not productive action.

 

[Crex Crex]

I love how the left wing is actual competent and takes action unlike the right wing which sadly just seethes.

Because right-wingers have a life outside of tugboat-funded activism, and don't adhere to an ideology that is blatantly about destroying society.
If the left were so good at activism, they would have won the culture war 10 years ago. Instead, surprise surprise, people don't like it when spoiled rich kids lecture them about outlandish bullshit while vandalizing public and private property.

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

next protest idea: demand we divest from the Atlantic ocean, because it supplies Israel with salt water via the Mediterranean.

Seriouly though. Pulling federal funding is one idea but the universities have a lot more coming in from private endowements. In a twisted way, the protesters are kind of right, except it's Boeing and not the university that should divest. If Boeing wants to train up technical cadres, they should establish trade academies where they get to pick the teaching staff and the cirriculum without any fat that allows activism to fester.

Are you here to learn drafting and metals manufacturing with a job guaranteed at the end of your term? Or do you want to open up your chakras and fight fascism?