Many on campus and outside UCLA are criticizing the university for not handling the violent counterprotest better.
When dozens of counterprotesters swarmed UCLA late Tuesday night, attacking the Palestinian solidarity encampment at the center of campus, university authorities were quickly overwhelmed. Law enforcement sources told The Times there were only a few UCLA police officers on hand. They tried to stop the violence but were no match for the crowd and had to retreat, having been attacked themselves, the sources said. A group of unarmed private security guards was there as well.
'It’s a total system failure, and we need to look ourselves in the eye and say how the hell did this happen?' Myers said that while he applauded leniency toward students in the encampment earlier in the week, he was perplexed and disheartened by the university and law enforcement's slow response to the 'violent assault' on the encampment.
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