Two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in a day of chaos at UCLA where police and students brawled late into the night.
A police officer suffered a hemorrhage cut on forehead after receiving a blow to the forehead while activists were shot with pepper and rubber bullets.
Protesters used homemade wooden shields to form battle lines against campus police officers and later California Highway Patrol officers in riot gear.
A protest leader was dramatically pulled from the front of a crowd mid-sentence while berating the “racist police” in front of her, and thrown to the ground.
UCLA Vice Chancellor Michael Beck was chased and threatened by a crowd of protesters as a squad of police escorted him across campus.
Two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in a day of chaos at UCLA where police and students brawled late into the night.
The protest escalated into skirmishes between police and protesters and police said 25 people were arrested around 8pm for refusing to leave.
A protest leader was dramatically pulled from the front of a crowd mid-sentence while berating the “racist police” in front of her, and thrown to the ground.
The mob repeatedly shouted “you’re not safe” at Beck and repeatedly moved to attack him, but his police guard only stopped him.
Other videos from the chaotic protest showed masked protesters harassing a rabbi and saying they “love Jews but hate Zionists,” and a facilities management employee calling Palestinians “terrorists.”
Police said that around 3:15 p.m., about 100 protesters occupied Dickson Plaza with tents, canopies, wooden shields and water-filled barriers.
Videos showed fake, bloodied bodies being paraded through the area in a “funeral procession” for civilians killed during Israel’s military action in Gaza.
Protesters also threw red dye on the fountain and red paint on the Janss stairs leading to the plaza, claiming that UCLA had “blood on its hands.”
Videos showed fake, bloodied bodies being paraded through the area in a “funeral procession” for civilians killed during Israel’s military action in Gaza.
When police expelled them from one area of campus, protesters simply packed up and marched to another
Police said that around 3:15 p.m., about 100 protesters occupied Dickson Plaza with tents, canopies, wooden shields and water-filled barriers.
One of the protest signs used at the UCLA demonstration.
Police arrived and demanded that they disperse around 6 p.m., which they did, only to move to another area of campus, the Kerckhoff Quad, and set up shop again.
This included tents, marquees and barricades with lawn furniture, and activists also broke into nearby Moore Hall and disrupted final exams, police said.
Again the police were able to remove them, but the protest simply moved to the courtyard between Dodd Hall and the Law School.
This was where they decided to make their last stand, setting up barricades with heavy metal furniture and forming lines with their shields.
Protesters clashed with about 50 campus police officers, LAPD, the Culver City Police Department and California Highway Patrol officers.
UCLA Vice Chancellor Michael Beck was chased and threatened by a crowd of protesters as a squad of police escorted him across campus.
Police line up against organized protesters shouting at them through loudspeakers
The scenes resembled a battle from late antiquity as the two sides pressed against each other in the streets, courtyards and alleys around that area of campus.
Protesters chanted: “No justice, no peace, no racist police.”
A video showed a small group of protesters trapped between two hedges and two lines of police, who were detained because they did not know where to retreat.
During the same confrontation, video showed a police officer being hit in the head by a protester, whom he quickly chased down and tackled.
The protest escalated into skirmishes between police and protesters and police said 25 people were arrested around 8pm for refusing to leave.
The police begin to push back a line of protesters carrying wooden shields.
They were given citations for willful disruption of university operations and were prohibited from being near UCLA property for 14 days.
“As a result of the unauthorized and illegal camping at all three locations, the group damaged the Shapiro Fountain, spray-painted brick walkways, tampered with fire safety equipment, damaged lawn furniture, stripped electrical fixture wires, and vandalized vehicles,” police said. alleged.
The arrested students were held in Dodd Hall while they were processed, prompting many of the remaining activists to move there.
They gathered around the building’s entrance and demanded the release of their “comrades,” reformed battle lines and clashed with police.
“We just want our people to be freed,” shouted one protester. Another added: ‘A genocide is taking place and you are arresting and mistreating students!’
Protester dragged into Dodd Hall after being arrested
Protesters sit on the ground after being arrested, while waiting to be served with citations.
The arrested students were held in Dodd Hall while they were processed, prompting many of the remaining activists to move there.
Seconds before the protester with the megaphone was suddenly pulled out of the crowd and arrested
At this part of the protest the police suddenly grabbed the woman while reprimanding them with a loudspeaker.
Within the overnight melee, a rabbi filmed himself being threatened by masked protesters.
One called him a ‘damn pedophile’ and told him to ‘go back to Poland, Ukraine, where you’re really from.’
One of them wore a hat that said “1492,” referring to the year the Jews were violently expelled from Catholic Spain.
The chaos continued for hours until protesters finally dispersed shortly after midnight, as police fired rubber bullets and pepper bullets.
During the nighttime melee, a rabbi filmed himself being threatened by masked protesters.
