Police in riot gear swept onto the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, early Wednesday, hours after New York City police made 300 arrests at Columbia University and City College as opposition to Israel's war in Gaza continued to roll through universities across the nation.
Video posted on social media showed counterdemonstrators battering a makeshift barricade around pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA. The Los Angeles Police Department said it was responding to UCLA's request to restore order "due to multiple acts of violence within the large encampment" on the campus.
"The violence unfolding this evening at UCLA is absolutely abhorrent and inexcusable," Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said in a Twitter post Wednesday. "LAPD has arrived on campus."
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a close up of a police car with its lights on by Max Fleischmann is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com
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