Members of pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups in Los Angeles sometimes tussled, with reports that protesters used fireworks and pepper spray. It was hours before police restored calm.
Counterprotesters try to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the University of California, Los Angeles campus in the early hours of Wednesday.the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday night, after pro-Israel demonstrators attempted to forcibly dismantle an encampment of dozens of tents set up by pro-Palestinian protesters who have been camping on the school's Dickson Plaza, a central green space on campus.
As news of the violence spread, so did questions about why administrators and police weren't able to prevent it, or mitigate it more quickly.saying his administration had"taken several immediate actions," including significantly boosting security by"adding greater numbers of law enforcement officers, safety personnel and student affairs mitigators."But media reports from the campus describe an hours-long delay between the first clashes erupting and police intervening.
There was apparently another delay: After the LAPD and California Highway Patrol officers reached the campus, they moved to separate and disperse the groups around 3 a.m., according toImages from the scene showed a large crowd of pro-Israel protesters pulling at metal barricades and wooden pallets the pro-Palestinian group had erected around their encampment.had initially gathered near the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on Tuesday afternoon.
Their protests are also meant to show solidarity with people in Gaza. The Israel-Hamas war has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, while Israel says some 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas in an assault last October. Israel says Hamas is still holding
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