As UCLA classes again went online Friday, more criticism was lodged against administrators, with faculty members joining students saying school’s response failed to protect students.
By 10:00 am much of the debris left by Palestinian supporters had been cleared out in front of Royce Hall at UCLA on Thursday, May 2, 2024. At around 3:30am law enforcement began arresting the supporters who had been camped out on the quad in front of Royce Hall for about a week. 132 occupiers were taken into custody and clean-up of the area began immediately.
“Individuals were given food, water and had access to public restrooms as they were being processed,” according to the sheriff’s department. “They were also offered reentry services and transportation services.” From public comments made Thursday by county prosecutors, many will likely face only possible misdemeanor charges of unlawful assembly or failure to disperse. If so, those cases would be handled through the L.A. City Attorney’s Office.By Friday, it was UCLA administration that was the focus of heavy criticism, not just by students but by faculty.
File photo: UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, second from left, talks with UC Regents chair Rich Lieb, left, and Regents chair Michael Drake, right, before a discussion in San Francisco, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, about UCLA’s desire to join the Big 10. “Our colleagues observed that the LAPD advanced on the student encampment, pushing and herding them, using the tactic of kettling,” alleged faculty in their statement. “Forced closely together, the students made easy targets for police who shot them with stun grenades, chemical agents, and rubber bullets. Police beat them with batons and shot them with rubber bullets, striking one student in the face with a rubber bullet.
The criticism kept coming, with law enforcement itself pointing to university administrators for “accountability.”
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