Maggie Gyllenhaal’s daughter, Ramona Sarsgaard, was arrested during the chaotic anti-Israel protests at Columbia University Wednesday, police sources said. Sarsgaard, 18, who attends Columbia College, was slapped with a desk appearance ticket for criminal trespassing, the sources said. The actress’s daughter – who Gyllenhaal shares with husband Peter Sarsgaard – was one of nearly 80 agitators arrested while storming the university’s Butler Library Wednesday evening as students prepared for final exams. At least two school safety officers were injured in the melee, officials said. As of Thursday, the elite Morningside Heights school had handed down at least 65 interim suspensions to students who were part of the chaos, pending further investigation, a school official said. It’s unclear if Sarsgaard was one of those suspended. Video obtained by The Post showed a line of protestors led out in zip ties by NYPD officers and onto waiting police buses following the ruckus, which started when demonstrators shoved past a security guard at the library’s front entrance, disrupting focused students . Once inside, they draped large signs over bookshelves, scrawled “Columbia Will Burn” on a glass case inside the library, and marked tables with colored tape. Another 33 individuals, including those from affiliated institutions, and an unspecified number of alumni, were also barred from campus, the official said – as Columbia faced public pressure to take strong action against the rabble-rousers. Little is known about Sarsgaard’s personal life. She follows in the footsteps of her famous mother, who reportedly graduated from Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in English literature before appearing in dozens of films including the 2008 blockbuster “The Dark Knight.”
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