Police officers made dozens of arrests after breaking into the pro-Palestinian camp installed in the University of California (UCLA) in The Angels.
According to local media, dozens of officers arrived at the university camp and faced resistance from hundreds of protesters as they tried to remove metal and wooden barriers and other objects that prevented access.
The actions of the agents began in the early hours of this Thursday, when the police launched flares over the camp that caused strong explosions, according to Los Angeles Times.
Several unsuccessful eviction attempts
The CNN reported several previous police attempts to penetrate the area where the protesters were entrenched without success and that units of the special operations service participated in the operation.
In the videos to which the network has had access, you can see the police wearing riot gear, helmets, gas masks, zip ties 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 taking more people out of the camp, the police said. CNN.
The detainees are transferred in buses that have been arranged near the Californian university campus
Canceled classes
The incidents occurred after the campers refused to leave the facilities throughout the night. UCLA as the authorities had requested.
The UCLA canceled its classes this Wednesday after the police intervention on campus that occurred during the early hours of that day to stop the violent clashes between groups of pro-Israel protesters and those who demand to stop the war in Gaza.
The educational center informed the students, via email, of the cancellation of all classes for this Wednesday and informed them that police officers would remain in the main buildings, next to the camp.
Clashes between groups of students
Police were deployed early Wednesday “due to multiple acts of violence within the large camp (set up by pro-Palestinian protesters) on their campus,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in social networks.
The intervention occurred after groups of pro-Israel protesters dressed in black and with white masks confronted students installed in a camp on the university campus last night to protest the war in Israel contra Hamas in Gaza.
Police actions in The Angels It adds to the similar incidents that have taken place in dozens of universities across the country in recent days. USA and which have resulted in several hundred arrests, the most serious occurring in the Columbia (NY) and in Wisconsin. EFE
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