LIVE | Los Angeles police enter UCLA camp and arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian students

Police officers made dozens of arrests this Thursday after raiding the pro-Palestinian camp set up at the University of California (UCLA), in Los Angeles. According to local media, dozens of police officers arrived at the university camp and faced resistance from hundreds of protesters who tried to remove metal and wooden barriers and other objects that prevented access. The agents’ actions began in the early hours of Thursday, when police launched flares over the camp that caused loud explosions, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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CNN reported several previous police attempts to penetrate the area where protesters were entrenched were unsuccessful, and that special operations service units participated in the operation.

In the videos to which the network had access, it is possible to see the police wearing riot gear, helmets, gas masks, armbands and preparing their batons when they entered the camp of demonstrators protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Some of the protesters knelt on the ground with their arms tied behind their backs as officers detained them and continued to clear more people from the field, CNN reports.

Detainees are transferred on buses located near the Californian university campus.

The incidents occurred after campers refused to leave UCLA facilities overnight as requested by authorities.

UCLA canceled its classes this Wednesday after the police intervention on campus in the early hours of that day to stop violent clashes between groups of pro-Israel protesters and those demanding an end to the war in Gaza.

The educational center informed students, via email, of the cancellation of all classes this Wednesday and informed that police officers would remain in the main buildings, next to the camp.

Police were dispatched Wednesday morning “due to multiple acts of violence within the large encampment (set up by pro-Palestinian protesters) on its campus,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on social media. .

The intervention took place after groups of pro-Israel protesters dressed in black and wearing white masks last night confronted students installed in a camp on the university campus to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

The police action in Los Angeles adds to similar incidents that have occurred at dozens of universities in the United States in recent days and which have resulted in several hundred arrests, the most serious occurring in Columbia (New York) and Wisconsin.

Source: Elcomercio

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