there were at least 200 people Arrested at UCLA on Thursday, bringing the total number of arrests nationwide at dozens of college campuses since then to more than 2,000. Police but cleared a stop Columbia University In mid-April, according to a report by the Associated Press.
There have been demonstrations and arrests in almost every corner of the country.
But over the past 24 hours, they have attracted the most attention at the University of California, Los Angeles, where chaotic scenes unfolded Thursday morning as officers in riot gear moved against the crowd. protesters,
After hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave, police removed barricades and began breaking up the strong encampment of protesters at UCLA, with some forming a human chain and using flash-flashes to disperse the crowd. Bang fired.
At least 200 people were arrested at UCLA, said Sgt. Alejandro Rubio of the California Highway Patrol, citing data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Rubio said those arrested are being booked at the county jail complex near downtown Los Angeles. UCLA Police will determine whether to file any charges.
Activists entered the former camp site on Thursday morning and began extensive cleaning. Bulldozers picked up sacks full of garbage and uprooted the tents. Some buildings were covered with graffiti.
The arrests came after officers threatened people over loudspeakers for hours with arrest if they did not move.
A crowd of more than 1,000 had gathered at the complex, including inside a barricaded tent encampment. There was a scuffle and scuffle between the protesters and the police when they faced resistance from the officers. The video shows police removing helmets and goggles from protesters while detaining them.
With police helicopters hovering, the sound of flash-bangs – which produce a bright light and a loud noise that disorientates and stuns – echoed in the air.
Protesters shouted at officers, “Where were you last night?” Late Tuesday night, counter-protesters attacked the camp and it took hours for UCLA administration and campus police to respond.
Tent camps of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza, unlike any other movement this century, have descended on campuses across the country. The students have spread in the movement. The ensuing police action echoed a much larger-scale crackdown decades earlier Oppose Movement against the Vietnam War.
They included an Illinois college professor who said he suffered several broken ribs and a broken arm during a pro-Palestine protest at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday.
Bystander video shows the arrest of Steve Tamari, a history professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He appears to be moving to take video or photographs of the protesters being detained when several officers arrest him and take him away.
Tamari said in a statement Thursday that it was “a small price to pay for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
on officials New YorkStony Brook University on Long Island said 29 people were arrested Thursday morning, including “students, faculty members and others outside our campus community.”
In New York City, Fordham University officials said 15 people were arrested after breaking into the lobby of a building on the school’s campus at Lincoln Center.
Seventeen people were arrested on criminal trespassing charges at the University of Texas at Dallas on Wednesday after protesters refused to comply with law enforcement orders to remove an encroachment from the school’s main thoroughfare, a university spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. Had refused.
Yale University Police arrested four people, including two students, on Wednesday night after about 200 protesters marched to the school president’s home and the campus police department, school officials said. School officials said in a statement Thursday that protesters ignored repeated warnings that they could not occupy parts of the campus without permission.
The protest group Occupy Yale said that campus police were violent during the arrests and did not issue warnings. The group posted a video on Instagram showing officers tackling one man to the ground and another onto the sidewalk.
Occupy Yale called it “a peaceful protest.” “Police officers grabbed, pushed and brutalized people. Is this what you call keeping the campus safe?”
In Oregon, police began evicting pro-Palestinian protesters from Miller Library at Portland State University, which they have been occupying since Monday.
They spray-painted graffiti inside and toppled or stacked furniture to create barricades. Portland State said on social media Thursday that the campus will remain closed due to police activity.
University President Ann Cudd said Wednesday that about 50 protesters evacuated the library after administrators promised not to seek criminal charges, expulsion or other discipline if they left peacefully, but others, including non-students, remained. are. Portland police said Thursday that 15 police vehicles were set on fire overnight; It was not immediately clear whether it was related to the protests.
Meanwhile, University of Minnesota officials reached an agreement with protesters to end encampment on the Minneapolis campus. Interim President Jeff Ettinger said in an email to the campus community Thursday that protesters have agreed not to disrupt final exams or commencement ceremonies. Similar agreements followed at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Meanwhile, the chancellor of Florida State University has ordered campus presidents to take all necessary steps to prevent disruption of graduation ceremonies, including at large schools like the University of Florida and Florida State University.
Protests also started on campuses. In Albuquerque on Thursday, about two dozen protesters sat in the middle of the street, blocking access to the main gate of Kirtland Air Force Base. The group waved flags and vowed to “stop everything” over the ongoing war in Gaza.
The protests at UCLA seemed to be getting the most attention. Iranian state television showed live images of the police action, as did Qatar’s pan-Arab Al Jazeera satellite network. Live images from Los Angeles were also played on Israeli television networks.
President Joe Biden on Thursday defended students’ right to peacefully protest but condemned the chaos of recent days.
Israel has labeled the protests anti-Semitic, while Israel’s critics say it uses those charges to silence the opposition. Although some protesters have been caught on camera making anti-Semitic remarks or violent threats, protest organizers – some of whom are Jewish – call it a peaceful movement to defend Palestinian rights and protest the war.
California Highway Patrol officers descended on the UCLA campus by the hundreds early Thursday. Wearing face shields and protective jackets, they spread their sticks to separate them from the protesters, who were wearing helmets and gas masks and chanting: “You want peace. We want justice.”
Police systematically dismantled fences made of plywood, straw, metal fencing and trash bins, then pulled down dozens of umbrellas and tents. By morning the number of protesters had dwindled, with some voluntarily leaving with their hands up and some being detained by the police.
The law enforcement presence and constant warnings were a stark contrast to the scene Tuesday night, when counter-protesters attacked the pro-Palestinian camp, throwing traffic cones, firing pepper spray and breaking down barriers. Fighting between the two sides continued for hours before the police arrived. No one was arrested, but at least 15 protesters were injured. The slow response of the authorities was criticized by political leaders, Muslim students and advocacy groups.
By Wednesday afternoon, a small town had emerged inside the fortified encampment, with hundreds of people and tents on the quad. Protestors rebuilt makeshift barriers around their tents while state and campus police watched.
Some protesters chanted that Muslims pray when the sun sets, while others chanted “We are not leaving” or distributed goggles and surgical masks. They wore helmets and headscarves, and discussed the best ways to deal with pepper spray or tear gas, as someone sang over a megaphone.
Outside the camp, a crowd of students, alumni and neighbors gathered on the campus steps and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans. A group of students demonstrated carrying signs and wearing T-shirts in support of Israel and the Jewish people.
As the night progressed and more and more officers arrived at the compound, the crowd grew larger.
Ray Williani, who lives nearby, said he came to UCLA on Wednesday evening to support pro-Palestine protesters.
“We need to take a stand on this,” he said. “enough is enough.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday condemned the delays in law enforcement and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block promised an investigation. The head of the University of California system, Michael Drake, ordered an “independent review of the university’s plan, its actions, and the response by law enforcement.”
“The community needs to feel that the police are protecting them, not enabling others to harm them,” Rebecca Hussaini, chief of staff at the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said during a news conference Wednesday. “
Meanwhile, police dispersed protests at schools across the US, resulting in arrests, or voluntarily closed them down. In New York, they included the City College of New York, Fordham University, Stony Brook University, and the University at Buffalo. Others nationwide include the University of New Hampshire in Durham, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and Tulane University in New Orleans.
On Tuesday night, police broke up a demonstration at Columbia University by entering a building occupied by war protesters, disrupting operations at the school.
The Columbia chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned school leadership Thursday for asking the NYPD to remove protesters. The chapter states that the “horrific police attack on our students” is now “shameful in front of the entire world.”
At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, chaos broke out early Wednesday when police cleared away all but one tent and dispersed protesters. Four officers were injured. Four people were charged with harming law enforcement.
Nationwide campus demonstrations to protest Israel’s offensive in Gaza began at Columbia on April 17, following Hamas’ deadly attack on southern Israel on October 7. The militants killed about 1,200 people, most of whom were civilians, and took about 250 hostage. Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry there, while vowing to oust Hamas.
American college campuses have become the center of controversy, with school leaders facing intense scrutiny over their handling of allegations of anti-Semitism and the right to free speech. The presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania resigned after being questioned in a congressional hearing about whether calls for the massacre of Jews on campus would violate the school’s conduct policy.
There have been demonstrations and arrests in almost every corner of the country.
But over the past 24 hours, they have attracted the most attention at the University of California, Los Angeles, where chaotic scenes unfolded Thursday morning as officers in riot gear moved against the crowd. protesters,
After hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave, police removed barricades and began breaking up the strong encampment of protesters at UCLA, with some forming a human chain and using flash-flashes to disperse the crowd. Bang fired.
At least 200 people were arrested at UCLA, said Sgt. Alejandro Rubio of the California Highway Patrol, citing data from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Rubio said those arrested are being booked at the county jail complex near downtown Los Angeles. UCLA Police will determine whether to file any charges.
Activists entered the former camp site on Thursday morning and began extensive cleaning. Bulldozers picked up sacks full of garbage and uprooted the tents. Some buildings were covered with graffiti.
The arrests came after officers threatened people over loudspeakers for hours with arrest if they did not move.
A crowd of more than 1,000 had gathered at the complex, including inside a barricaded tent encampment. There was a scuffle and scuffle between the protesters and the police when they faced resistance from the officers. The video shows police removing helmets and goggles from protesters while detaining them.
With police helicopters hovering, the sound of flash-bangs – which produce a bright light and a loud noise that disorientates and stuns – echoed in the air.
Protesters shouted at officers, “Where were you last night?” Late Tuesday night, counter-protesters attacked the camp and it took hours for UCLA administration and campus police to respond.
Tent camps of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza, unlike any other movement this century, have descended on campuses across the country. The students have spread in the movement. The ensuing police action echoed a much larger-scale crackdown decades earlier Oppose Movement against the Vietnam War.
They included an Illinois college professor who said he suffered several broken ribs and a broken arm during a pro-Palestine protest at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on Saturday.
Bystander video shows the arrest of Steve Tamari, a history professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He appears to be moving to take video or photographs of the protesters being detained when several officers arrest him and take him away.
Tamari said in a statement Thursday that it was “a small price to pay for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
on officials New YorkStony Brook University on Long Island said 29 people were arrested Thursday morning, including “students, faculty members and others outside our campus community.”
In New York City, Fordham University officials said 15 people were arrested after breaking into the lobby of a building on the school’s campus at Lincoln Center.
Seventeen people were arrested on criminal trespassing charges at the University of Texas at Dallas on Wednesday after protesters refused to comply with law enforcement orders to remove an encroachment from the school’s main thoroughfare, a university spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. Had refused.
Yale University Police arrested four people, including two students, on Wednesday night after about 200 protesters marched to the school president’s home and the campus police department, school officials said. School officials said in a statement Thursday that protesters ignored repeated warnings that they could not occupy parts of the campus without permission.
The protest group Occupy Yale said that campus police were violent during the arrests and did not issue warnings. The group posted a video on Instagram showing officers tackling one man to the ground and another onto the sidewalk.
Occupy Yale called it “a peaceful protest.” “Police officers grabbed, pushed and brutalized people. Is this what you call keeping the campus safe?”
In Oregon, police began evicting pro-Palestinian protesters from Miller Library at Portland State University, which they have been occupying since Monday.
They spray-painted graffiti inside and toppled or stacked furniture to create barricades. Portland State said on social media Thursday that the campus will remain closed due to police activity.
University President Ann Cudd said Wednesday that about 50 protesters evacuated the library after administrators promised not to seek criminal charges, expulsion or other discipline if they left peacefully, but others, including non-students, remained. are. Portland police said Thursday that 15 police vehicles were set on fire overnight; It was not immediately clear whether it was related to the protests.
Meanwhile, University of Minnesota officials reached an agreement with protesters to end encampment on the Minneapolis campus. Interim President Jeff Ettinger said in an email to the campus community Thursday that protesters have agreed not to disrupt final exams or commencement ceremonies. Similar agreements followed at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Meanwhile, the chancellor of Florida State University has ordered campus presidents to take all necessary steps to prevent disruption of graduation ceremonies, including at large schools like the University of Florida and Florida State University.
Protests also started on campuses. In Albuquerque on Thursday, about two dozen protesters sat in the middle of the street, blocking access to the main gate of Kirtland Air Force Base. The group waved flags and vowed to “stop everything” over the ongoing war in Gaza.
The protests at UCLA seemed to be getting the most attention. Iranian state television showed live images of the police action, as did Qatar’s pan-Arab Al Jazeera satellite network. Live images from Los Angeles were also played on Israeli television networks.
President Joe Biden on Thursday defended students’ right to peacefully protest but condemned the chaos of recent days.
Israel has labeled the protests anti-Semitic, while Israel’s critics say it uses those charges to silence the opposition. Although some protesters have been caught on camera making anti-Semitic remarks or violent threats, protest organizers – some of whom are Jewish – call it a peaceful movement to defend Palestinian rights and protest the war.
California Highway Patrol officers descended on the UCLA campus by the hundreds early Thursday. Wearing face shields and protective jackets, they spread their sticks to separate them from the protesters, who were wearing helmets and gas masks and chanting: “You want peace. We want justice.”
Police systematically dismantled fences made of plywood, straw, metal fencing and trash bins, then pulled down dozens of umbrellas and tents. By morning the number of protesters had dwindled, with some voluntarily leaving with their hands up and some being detained by the police.
The law enforcement presence and constant warnings were a stark contrast to the scene Tuesday night, when counter-protesters attacked the pro-Palestinian camp, throwing traffic cones, firing pepper spray and breaking down barriers. Fighting between the two sides continued for hours before the police arrived. No one was arrested, but at least 15 protesters were injured. The slow response of the authorities was criticized by political leaders, Muslim students and advocacy groups.
By Wednesday afternoon, a small town had emerged inside the fortified encampment, with hundreds of people and tents on the quad. Protestors rebuilt makeshift barriers around their tents while state and campus police watched.
Some protesters chanted that Muslims pray when the sun sets, while others chanted “We are not leaving” or distributed goggles and surgical masks. They wore helmets and headscarves, and discussed the best ways to deal with pepper spray or tear gas, as someone sang over a megaphone.
Outside the camp, a crowd of students, alumni and neighbors gathered on the campus steps and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans. A group of students demonstrated carrying signs and wearing T-shirts in support of Israel and the Jewish people.
As the night progressed and more and more officers arrived at the compound, the crowd grew larger.
Ray Williani, who lives nearby, said he came to UCLA on Wednesday evening to support pro-Palestine protesters.
“We need to take a stand on this,” he said. “enough is enough.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday condemned the delays in law enforcement and UCLA Chancellor Gene Block promised an investigation. The head of the University of California system, Michael Drake, ordered an “independent review of the university’s plan, its actions, and the response by law enforcement.”
“The community needs to feel that the police are protecting them, not enabling others to harm them,” Rebecca Hussaini, chief of staff at the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said during a news conference Wednesday. “
Meanwhile, police dispersed protests at schools across the US, resulting in arrests, or voluntarily closed them down. In New York, they included the City College of New York, Fordham University, Stony Brook University, and the University at Buffalo. Others nationwide include the University of New Hampshire in Durham, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and Tulane University in New Orleans.
On Tuesday night, police broke up a demonstration at Columbia University by entering a building occupied by war protesters, disrupting operations at the school.
The Columbia chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned school leadership Thursday for asking the NYPD to remove protesters. The chapter states that the “horrific police attack on our students” is now “shameful in front of the entire world.”
At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, chaos broke out early Wednesday when police cleared away all but one tent and dispersed protesters. Four officers were injured. Four people were charged with harming law enforcement.
Nationwide campus demonstrations to protest Israel’s offensive in Gaza began at Columbia on April 17, following Hamas’ deadly attack on southern Israel on October 7. The militants killed about 1,200 people, most of whom were civilians, and took about 250 hostage. Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry there, while vowing to oust Hamas.
American college campuses have become the center of controversy, with school leaders facing intense scrutiny over their handling of allegations of anti-Semitism and the right to free speech. The presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania resigned after being questioned in a congressional hearing about whether calls for the massacre of Jews on campus would violate the school’s conduct policy.
