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Thursday, May 02, 2024

Police Arrest UCLA Protesters and Clear Encampment: Live Updates - The New York Times

Live Updates: Police Clear U.C.L.A. Encampment and Arrest Protesters

Officers in riot gear moved in before dawn to dismantle a pro-Palestinian protest camp, as authorities across the U.S. take tougher action against campus demonstrations.

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Police officers in riot gear moved in before dawn Thursday and cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, detaining dozens of demonstrators, as authorities across the United States step up efforts to dismantle the protests that have gripped campuses nationwide.

Officers tore through barricades, pulled up tents and corralled protesters at U.C.L.A., leading some away with their wrists zip-tied. The California Highway Patrol confirmed that multiple people had been arrested. After about two hours, the police had largely cleared the encampment, which was littered with mounds of shattered wood, collapsed tents and destroyed furniture.

Police officers face off with pro-Palestinian protesters on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, early Thursday.Etienne Laurent/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

As protesters chanted and sprayed fire extinguishers at them, police officers moved in on the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the early hours of Thursday, tearing down its barricades,  arresting dozens of people and clearing out the tents that had dominated the center of campus for days.

The chaotic scenes were part of a tense, hourslong back-and-forth between protesters and police that had been building after violent clashes a day earlier — involving counterprotesters who attacked the encampment — prompted administrators to call in law enforcement.

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By Leanne Abraham, Bora Erden, Lazaro Gamio, Helmuth Rosales, Julie Walton Shaver and Anjali Singhvi

Gaya Gupta
May 2, 2024, 10:34 a.m. ET

The president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire said that 90 people had been removed from a protest encampment Wednesday night, including many unaffiliated with the university. In a statement, the president, Sian Leah Beilock, acknowledged protests as an important form of speech, but said that opinions can “never be used to justify taking over Dartmouth’s shared spaces.”

Isabella Kwai
May 2, 2024, 10:15 a.m. ET

At least 132 demonstrators were arrested overnight at the University of California, Los Angeles, according to Officer Erik Larsen of the California Highway Patrol. Those arrested would be handed over to the university’s police department, he said.

Isabella Kwai
May 2, 2024, 10:20 a.m. ET

Larsen said that C.H.P., which is responsible for the safekeeping of state property, had been called in because of the number of demonstrators. “The C.H.P., being a state agency, responded to a university which is state-owned and run in order to assist,” he said.

Mike Baker
May 2, 2024, 10:11 a.m. ET

At Portland State University in Oregon, police have started encircling the campus library, which demonstrators seized and fortified in recent days to prepare for a standoff. Officers have closed several blocks surrounding the building and are using a loudspeaker to call for those inside the library to leave.

Mike Baker
May 2, 2024, 10:36 a.m. ET

The university has closed its campus for the day as police begin an effort to remove demonstrators from the campus library. One activist said officers have breached the building.

Isabella Kwai
May 2, 2024, 9:26 a.m. ET

The New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey said on social media that it had postponed exams and other academic activities that had been scheduled for Thursday morning because of an “anticipated escalation of protest activities.”

Lauren Leatherby
May 2, 2024, 8:59 a.m. ET

The encampment where the standoff at U.C.L.A. took place is in the northern part of the campus, between Royce Hall to the north and Powell Library to the south.

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Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 8:46 a.m. ET

The police appear to have cleared the encampment of protesters and detained dozens of people. A group of about 100 demonstrators remain in the area, chanting, “We will rebound.” The encampment is littered with mounds of shattered wood, collapsed tents and destroyed furniture.

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Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 8:17 a.m. ET

Police have given another dispersal warning, telling people to leave or face arrest. A group of about 40 protesters have linked arms in the middle of the encampment and refused to leave. Others are trying to refortify it with metal barricades, wooden pallets and traffic cones.

Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 7:57 a.m. ET

A California Highway Patrol officer just shot something toward the protesters, but it was unclear what was in the canister he fired. Protesters shouted, “Don’t shoot!” and “We’re just students!”

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Isabella Kwai
May 2, 2024, 7:58 a.m. ET

A C.H.P. spokesman couldn’t confirm what was being used, but said that officers had a variety of “nonlethal” tools at their disposal, including flash-bang devices that emit loud noises or flashes used to get people’s attention.

Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 7:23 a.m. ET

An hour after police moved in, the main barricade that protected the encampment is mostly gone. In its place is a line of people who are linking arms and chanting, “Don’t attack students!” and “Where were you yesterday?” — a reference to an attack on the camp by around 200 counterprotesters on Tuesday night.

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John Yoon
May 2, 2024, 6:57 a.m. ET

California Highway Patrol officers arrested multiple protesters at U.C.L.A. Thursday morning, said Erik Larsen, a highway patrol officer, without specifying how many.

Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 6:46 a.m. ET

Bangs are echoing in the sky, and officers have begun detaining some protesters and leading them away. Inside the encampment, some protesters sprayed police with what appeared to be fire extinguishers and chanted, “We’re not scared.”

Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 6:22 a.m. ET

Police are now tearing through barricades on one side of the encampment outside Royce Hall at U.C.L.A. Officers are pulling apart plywood and other materials that protesters had used to build a wall around them. The other side of the encampment appears to be holding for now.

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Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 6:04 a.m. ET

Police officers tried again to enter the staircase leading into the U.C.L.A. encampment, but protesters blocked them with wooden pallets and homemade shields. Hundreds of protesters surrounded the officers for several minutes before some officers appeared to pull back. Protesters chanted: “Cops go home!”

Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 4:59 a.m. ET

"Protesters opened umbrellas and began taking photos and flashing lights at the police officers, who slowly backed out of the encampment. 

The people united will never be defeated.

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Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 4:49 a.m. ET

Officers went into the encampment using a staircase that protesters had been using to enter and exit. A loud bang was heard as they entered. Officers set up a line and protesters quickly surrounded them, taking video, linking arms and chanting, “Free, free Palestine.” So far, police and protesters have not engaged with each other.

Jonathan Wolfe
May 2, 2024, 4:33 a.m. ET

More than six hours after police at the University of California, Los Angeles, first issued an order for protesters to leave the encampment or face arrest, the police are moving in.

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John Yoon
May 2, 2024, 1:59 a.m. ET

At Dartmouth College, 90 protesters were arrested for offenses including criminal trespass and resisting arrest, Hanover Police Department said in a statement early Thursday.

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Demonstrators gathered last week at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

A deal struck by Northwestern University officials and pro-Palestinian demonstrators brought an end to a protest encampment on campus but drew harsh criticism from Jewish leaders and students on Wednesday.

The agreement, announced this week, included a promise by the university to be more transparent about its financial holdings. In turn, demonstrators removed the tent camp they built last week at Deering Meadow, a stretch of lawn on campus.

Student protesters bang on the windows of the Lowenstein Center at Fordham University in Manhattan, in anticipation of being cleared out by New York police officers.Bing Guan for The New York Times

Police officers in riot gear arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Fordham University’s Manhattan campus on Wednesday evening, the third university in New York City to face mass arrests in the past 24 hours.

The officers, wearing helmets and carrying batons, entered the Leon Lowenstein Center, where earlier on Wednesday protesters had erected a modest encampment inside. The protesters who were arrested did not appear to resist, and they stood facing a large crowd of demonstrators while the officers put their hands into zip ties behind their backs.

A man wearing an Israeli flag took down a Palestinian flag from a flagpole at Columbia University on April 26.Mike Segar/Reuters

As students continue to protest Israel’s assault on Gaza, the flagpoles at universities have become the latest point of conflict.

Students have raised the Palestinian flag at central locations on several campuses across the country, in some cases replacing American flags. This happened on Tuesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The violence erupted late Tuesday night, not long after university administrators declared the encampment illegal and threatened to suspend or expel student demonstrators.Mark Abramson for The New York Times

Follow our live updates on the campus protests.

It was an example of a tolerant campus, where a burgeoning pro-Palestinian encampment might be left alone even as student protesters were arrested across the nation. Free speech would be supported as long as things remained peaceful, officials said last week."

Police Arrest UCLA Protesters and Clear Encampment: Live Updates - The New York Times

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