Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters detained as LAPD clears demonstrators out of USC

CHAUNCY: WE WANT TO GO TO BREAKING NEWS. POLICE TAKING ACTION AT USC OVER PALESTINIAN PROTESTS. >> HERE WE GO. LAPD, ALL OF A SUDDEN, DOZENS OF OFFICERS LINING IN FORMATION AS I WIDEN OUT AND SHOW YOU LINE OF OFFICERS. THERE WAS A COUPLE OF HERE, ANOTHER LINE HERE GETTING READY AND COUPLE OF SUV'S JUST AHEAD OF THEM ACTUALLY HERE THEY ARE RIGHT HERE. THEY WERE SIDING ON THE SIDES OF THE SUV'S, THEY ARE GOING THE LINE UP. IT LOOKS LIKE -- THEY ARE GOING GIVE THE DISPERSAL ORDER. THEY ARE GOING TO ROLL IN HERE IN MASS TO TRY TO BREAK UP PROTEST AND WE WILL SEE HOW THE PROTESTORS WE RESPOND TO ALL OF THIS. THAT IS WHERE LAPD IS. HERE IS WHERE THE PRO PROTESTOR. MONITORING THINGS AND WE ARE JUST GOING TO SEE HOW THIS GOES DOWN. THE DISPELLAL ORDER HAS BEEN GIVEN AND THOSE OFFICERS ARE GOING TO COME IN AND PROBABLY EVENTUALLY SURROUND THE PROTESTORS AND AGAIN WE ARE JUST GOING TO HAVE TO SEE HOW ALL OF THIS UNFOLDS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MOMENTS, CHAUNCY AND SUSIE. SUZANNE: WE ALSO HAVE BREAKING NEWS AT THE GROUND AT USC. CHAUNCY: THAT'S WHERE LUZDELIA CABALLER ON THE GROUND WITH THE VERY LATEST. REPORTER: LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES AGO PRESIDENT OF USC MADE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT IN TEN MINUTES, IN TEN MINUTES THEY HAVE TO LEAVE. ANYBODY INSIDE ALUMNI PARK OR ADJACENT TO ALUMNI PARK MUST LEAVE OR THEY WILL FACE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. NOW THEY ALSO SAID THAT THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND, AGAIN, THEY SAID MULTIPLE TIMES THAT PROTESTORS HAVE TEN MINUTES TO LEAVE TO WHICH PROTESTORS STARTED CHANTING. SO ONE OF TWO THINGS COULD HAPPEN HERE. WE SEE MULTIPLE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES HERE. LAPD AND TO BELIEVE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY HERE ON CAMPUS. WE ALSO SEE PROTESTORS THAT DON'T SEEM TO BE MOVING AT ALL AND THIS WAS THE CASE EARLIER BEFORE OFFICERS STORMED TO TAKE AWAY THOSE TENTS FROM PROTESTORS AND WE KNOW HOW THAT UNFOLDED. EMOTIONS WERE RATHER HIGH AND THINGS TURNED VIOLENT WITH A PROTESTOR. AGAIN, PROTESTORS DID NOT ALLOW THE PATROL CAR TO MOVE AND THEY CHANTED UNTIL THAT INDIVIDUAL WAS RELEASED. SO AT THIS TIME, IT'S JUST WAITING APPROACH THAT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SEEM TO BE TAKING BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK BEHIND ME, AGAIN, DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THERE IS ANY MOVEMENT AT ALL. SO WE WILL BE HERE MONITORING THE SITUATION TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT UNFOLDS, BUT, AGAIN, THIS IS A PEACEFUL PROTEST. FOLKS ARE JUST MAKING IT CLEAR THAT THEY WANT PEACE AND THAT THEY WILL SEEMINGLY STAY HERE. SO WE WILL SEE IF THEY STAY LONGER THAN TEN MINUTES OR END UP LEAVING AND HEEDING THE WARNING THAT THE DEPARTMENT GAVE THEM. SUZIE: THANKS FOR THE UPDATE. LET'S GO TO DESMOND SHAW. CHAUNCY: DEFENSEMONT, YOU TALKED ABOUT POLICE ASKING FOR ID FOR PEOPLE COMING TO CAMPUS AND WE KNOW THESE SITUATIONS CAN TURN VIOLENT IN A MATTER OF SECONDS. >> YES, ABSOLUTELY. AND THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, THE UNIVERSITY REALLY WANTS TO AVOID ANY OUTSIDE AGITATORS FROM COMING AND GETTING INVOLVED IN THIS. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF ATTENTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVELY CALLING FOR OTHER NONSTUDENTS TO COME TO THE CAMPUS, SO THAT'S WHY YOU HERE RIGHT HERE IS ONE OF THOSE PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS OUT HERE MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS THEIR ID. YOU CAN SEE EVERYONE REACHING INTO THEIR WALLET, THEIR PURSE TO SHOW THEIR ID. OBVIOUSLY ALLOWING PEOPLE TO LEAVE FREELY AND I BELIEVE THIS IS THE CASE ENTRANCES AND EXITS AT USC. IT'S EXPOSITION AND UNIVERSITY AVENUE. A THOUSAND FEET OR SO HERE IS WHERE THE MAIN PROTEST HAS BEEN THIS AFTERNOON. LAPD, THEY HAD OFFICERS, THERE' COUPLE OF THEM RIGHT HERE BUT THE LARGER FORCE THAT WE SAW IS STILL SOME DISTANCE AWAY WHERE THEY ARE PROBABLY DISCUSSING TACTICS ON HOW THEY WANT TO HANDLE THIS AND HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, GET THIS ADDRESSED, GET THIS DISPERSED WITHOUT ANY SERIOUS CONFRONTATION. THE OFFICERS ACTUALLY RIGHT IN THIS AREA, OBSCURED BY THE BUILDING. HERE WE GO. WE ARE SEEING THEM. YOU HEARD LUZDELIA. HERE WE GO. THEY ARE WALKING. WE ARE FOLLOWING THE OFFICERS AS THEY GO OVER TO THE PROTESTORS. WE WILL SEE HOW THE PROTESTORS RESPOND TO THIS. OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST WE'VE SEEN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS CAN GET VERY TENSE VERY QUICKLY AND THINGS CAN GO SOUTH VERY QUICKLY. SO THIS IS A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION FOR LAPD AS THEY NOW COME IN TO BREAK UP THIS PROTEST AND POTENTIALLY ARREST PEOPLE, CHAUNCY AND SUSIE. SUZIE: THERE ARE MANY HEATED EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS AND OBVIOUSLY THE LAPD DOESN'T WANT IT TO TURN VIOLENT. THEY ARE GOING TO STEP IN RIGHT NOW AND HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE A PEACEFUL END OF THE PROTEST AT USC TONIGHT BUT OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS AT A GROWING NUMBER OF COLLEGES HAVE BEEN GATHERING FROM -- MASSACHUSETTS ALL THE WAY TO CALIFORNIA. WE SAW AT COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY WHERE STUDENTS ARRESTED EARLIER THIS WEEK AND THIS IS TO DEMAND THAT WE STOP DOING BUSINESS WITH ISRAEL OR ANY COMPANIES THAT SUPPORT ITS ONGOING WAR IN ISRAEL. A LOT OF PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTS HAVE BEEN HAPPENING ACROSS THE COUNTRY SPECIFICALLY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND AS WE TAKE A TIGHTER SHOT HERE AT EXPOSITION PARK OR AT THE UNIVERSITY PARK THERE, YOU CAN SEE THE PEOPLE GATHERED AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY ARE NOT MOVING AND WE ARE GOING TO GO BACK TO THE GROUND TO SEE IF THERE IS ANY MOVEMENT ON THE GROUND. LET'S GO BACK TO LUZDELIA CABALLERO WHO IS STANDING WITH THE UPDATE. WE ARE SEEING POLICE OFFICERS COMING CLOSE TO THE PROTESTORS. REPORTER: DEFINITELY, THESE ARE LAPD OFFICERS AND IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE GETTING READY TO START MARCHING TOWARD THESE PROTESTORS TO BREAK THIS UP. THEY MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT THEY HAD TEN MINUTES TO GO UNTIL THE LAPD MOVED ON IN TO BREAK THE PROTEST. IT ALSO SEEMS AT THIS TIME THAT PLAY BE GOING AROUND OR THEY -- THEY'RE COMING TO A STOP. IT'S UNCLEAR EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING, BUT THERE ARE MANY BOOTS ON THE GROUND AT THIS POINT AND, AGAIN, THE PROTESTORS STILL HAVE NOT MOVED. WE SPOKE TO A FEW OF THEM WHO TOLD US POINT-BLANK, THEY'RE NOT LEAVING IF ANYTHING, THEY ARE GOING TO MARCH AROUND ALUMNI PARK WHICH MAKES THINGS VERY DIFFICULT FOR THESE OFFICERS, VERY POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION HERE. SO WE WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED HERE ON THE GROUND BUT AS FAR AS WE KNOW, YOU'RE SEEING THESE OFFICERS HERE LINING UP GETTING READY TO GO IN TO ALUMNI PARK AND ULTIMATELY BREAK UP THIS PROTEST. CHAUNCY: ALL RIGHT, LUZDELIA, THANK YOU. WE WANT TO GO TO DESMOND ABOVE THE SCENE. ONE OF SEVERAL PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATIONS BEING HELD AT UNIVERSITIES ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY EVEN THERE IN TEXAS TODAY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IN AUSTIN. SEVERAL STUDENTS WERE DETAINED AFTER CLASHING POLICE. WE'VE ALSO SEEN THIS IN COLOMBIA. WE KNOW -- ONE PERSON BEING DETAINED BY THEN ALSO RELEASED BUT AT SOME OF THESE CAMPUSES WE ARE SEEING SEVERAL STUDENTS OR SEVERAL PEOPLE ON THESE COLLEGE CAMPUSES, CAMPUSES BEING ARRESTED. WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN SO FAR? >> I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT HAPPEN HERE YET BUT LAPD, SO THESE ARE THE OFFICERS THAT WE SAW COME AROUND THE CORNER MAYBE JUST TO KIND A LAY OF THE LAND AND JUST SEE WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH SHORTLY BUT NOW THEY'VE KIND OF GONE BACK AROUND THE CORNER AND T LIKES LIKE THEY MAY BE RECEIVING FURTHER INTRODUCTION. HERE JUST AS I DOUBLE IN YOU'VE ALSO GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT HERE OBVIOUSLY WATCHING EVERY SINGLE MOVEMENT OF OFFICERS OUT HERE. THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF EYES, A LOT OF CAMERAS ON THESE OFFICERS, SO VERY -- VERY TENSE, VERY TOUCH AND GO SITUATION, A LOT OF PRESSURE ON POLICE ABOUT HOW THEY ARE GOING TO HANDLE THIS AS WELL. SO JUST WATCHING PEOPLE THAT ARE WALKING BY SUDDENLY WHIPPING OUT THEIR PHONES TO GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA POST OR WHAT HAVE YOU. WE SHOWED YOU WHERE THAT IS NOW OVER TO THE ALUMNI PARK AREA WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE THE PROTESTORS ARE KIND OF HUDDLING A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TOGETHER. THEY WERE A LITTLE BIT MORE DISPERSED EARLIER THROUGHOUT THE PROTESTS. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE CLOSING RANKS A LITTLE BIT AT THIS POINT AND AS LUZDELIA WAS SAYING, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY'RE NOT GOING TO LEAVE. I'M SURE AS OFFICERS CLOSE IN NOW. OKAY, WE ARE STARTING TO SEE SOME PEOPLE LEAVE. YOU ARE PROBABLY GOING TO SEE A GOOD CHUNK OF PEOPLE DISPERSE THAT DON'T WANT TO GET ARRESTED. OTHER PEOPLE WILL BE STICKING AROUND AND ARE NOT CONCERNED WITH THAT. SO JUST GOING TO SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT HERE BUT VERY TOUCH AND GO, WHEN WILL LAPD ACTUALLY MOVE IN? A LOT OF TIMES THEY GIVE AN ORDER AND THEY STILL WILL GIVE STUDENTS PROTESTORS OR WHATEVER THE SITUATION IS EVEN MORE TIME TO GET OUT OF THE WAY. THEY KIND OF WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THEY MEAN BUSINESS AT FIRST BEFORE THEY REALLY, REALLY COME IN TO GOING IN SO THAT MAY BE WHAT THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW, CHAUNCY. CHAUNCY: THANKS, WE WANT TO GO BACK TO THE SHOT ON THE GROUND. LUZDELIA STANDING BY. WE KNOW THE ISRAEL-HAMAS PROTEST HAPPENING AT CAMPUS AS CROSS THE COUNTRY. REPORTER: YEAH, AND WE'VE SEEN THAT ALL MORNING, ALL AFTERNOON AND NOW GOING INTO OUR EVENING HOURS. PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD, THE PROBLEM IS AT THIS POINT WE'VE HEARD THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY HERE ON CAMPUS TELLING PROTESTORS THAT THEY MUST LEAVE, THAT THEY ARE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THEY HAVE TEN MINUTES LEAVE ALUMNI PARK. FOR THOSE IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK AND ALSO THOSE WHO ARE NEARBY ADJACENT KIND OF HANGING OUT BY THE LIBRARY THAT THEY NEED TO LEAVE. SO THE ULTIMATE GOAL HERE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT IS BREAKING THIS PROTEST UP. NOW WE HAVE SEEN PREVIOUSLY THAT WHEN OFFICERS MOVED IN IN THE MORNING THAT THINGS GOT VERY HEATED AND, OF COURSE, THAT ENDED WITH ONE PROTESTOR BEING DETAINED. SO REALLY IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY SENSITIVE TOPIC AND REALLY COULD BE A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION FOR POTENTIALLY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND FOR PROTESTORS DEPENDING ON HOW THIS IS HANDLED WHICH IS WHY WE ARE SEEING IS IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE WAITING ON ORDERS TO TRY TO STRATEGICALLY MOVE TO BREAK THE PROTEST AT THIS TIME. I DO WANT TO CONTINUE TO SAY THAT THE PROTEST IS PEACEFUL ONCE AGAIN. IT STARTED OFF AS A PEACEFUL PROTEST AND IT CONTINUES TO BE A PEACEFUL PROTEST. THERE WAS ONE TIME WHERE THERE WAS A CLASH WITH OFFICERS AND PROTESTORS. THINGS GOT HEATED, CHAUNCY, YOU WERE MENTIONING THAT PEOPLE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND THIS PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST THEY HAVE MADE IT VERY, VERY APPARENT THAT THEY WANT PEACE, THEY WANT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THEY WANT USC TO NOT TAKE PART IN WHAT THEY FEEL IS TAKING PART IN THIS WAR. SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT THE LAPD WILL DO NEXT. AT THIS POINT IT SEEMS LIKE THEY CONTINUE TO WAIT ON THE LATEST ORDER BEFORE ULTIMATELY MOVING IN STRATEGICALLY TO ALUMNI PARK. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND LET'S GO UPSTAIRS TO DESMOND SHAW. THE LAST TIME WE SHOWED YOUR SHOT SOME OF THE PEOPLE WERE ALL PAYING THOSE DISPERSAL ORDERS AND IS AT THE CASE NOW? >> NOT AT THE MOMENT. WE MIGHT HAVE SEEN SOME PEOPLE THAT MADE AN EARLY EXIT BEFORE ANYTHING POTENTIALLY ESCALATES BUT A LOT OF THE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN OUT HERE SINCE THIS MORNING THEY CONTINUE TO BE OUT HERE. THERE ARE SOME OFFICERS THAT ARE STANDING RIGHT HERE INTERACTING WITH SOME OF THE STUDENTS, SOME WORDS BEING EXCHANGED THAT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN PRETTY CALM STILL AT THIS POINT. WHAT WE ARE WAITING TO SEE IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE OFFICERS IN THIS AREA THAT HAVE HELMETS AND SOME OF THEM ARMED WITH LESS LETHAL AS WELL AND WHAT THEIR PLAN IS GOING TO BE. WE NOW SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2020 DURING THE HEIGHT OF CO-BIG LAPD'S TACTICS FOR PROTEST AND HOW TO HANDLE THEM HAS REALLY CHANGED. WE HAVEN'T SEEN LAPD USING TEARGAS I DON'T THINK AT ALL SINCE THOSE PROTESTS. IT'S VERY RARE TO SEE THEM USE ANY WEAPONS AT ALL. ALL IT TAKES IS ONE ACTOR ALBERT A BOTTLE BEING THROWN AN OBJECT OR SOMETHING LIKE CATTANACH AND COMPLETELY CHANGE THE ENTIRE TONE OF HOW LAPD RESPONSE IN HOW PROTESTERS RESPONDED THINGS CAN TURN QUICKLY. WE SAW THE MARCHING OUT THERE AND THEY MADE AN ABOUT-FACE AND CAME BACK OVER HERE. THEY MAY BE WAITING FOR ORDERS FROM HEADQUARTERS ABOUT HOW BEST TO HANDLE THIS. THEY RUN THROUGH A LOT OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS BEFORE THEY GO IN WITH ANY KIND OF SITUATION BEFORE THEY TAKE DRASTIC ACTION AND IT'S JUST A VERY DELICATE AND EMOTIONAL SITUATION FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. WE MAY ACTUALLY I THINK IF ANYTHING WE MAY BE SEEING MORE PEOPLE GETTING TOGETHER. HERE'S A LARGE GROUP THAT WASN'T HER COUPLE OF MOMENTS AGO. WORD IS CIRCULATING AROUND USC ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IF THEY DON'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED BUT THEY WANT TO SEE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. CITY CAMPUS SECURITY MAKING SURE THE ONLY STUDENTS WHO ARE ON CAMPUS PROTESTERS ON CAMPUS ARE THOSE WITH EXCLUSIVELY USC STUDENT I.D. SO THEY ARE MAKING SURE THE PROTESTERS FROM THE OUTSIDE CANNOT GET ON THE CAMPUS. IF YOU'VE BEEN TO TO USC WITH A VERY OPEN CAMPUS SO ANYONE COULD DRIVE ONTO THE CAMPUS AND JOIN THIS EFFORT BUT THEY ARE ASKING FOR THOSE I.D.s TONIGHT. HOPEFULLY THERE WON'T BE A BIGGER SITUATION OR SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS THAN LUZDELIA WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. THE ONLY MAJOR DYSFUNCTION WE HAVE SEEN FROM EARLIER TODAY WHEN OFFICERS WERE MOVING IN TO REMOVE SOME OF THE CAMPS THAT ARE THERE IN CAMPUS. LET'S GO BACK TO THE GROUND WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE PROTESTERS ARE CHANTIG BEGAN AND LUZDELIA CABALLERO IS JOINING US AGAIN. REPORTER: WE HAVE DOZENS OF LAPD OFFICERS ON THE GROUND WAITING FOR AN ORDER TO WHAT WE ASSUME TO GO INTO ALUMNI TO BREAK UP THIS PROTEST AND YOU'LL NOTICE SOME OF THESE OFFICERS ARE ARMED WITH LESS THAN LETHAL GUNS THAT HAVE SOME BULLETS. THESE GUNS ARE USUALLY USED IN THIS PROTEST AND LESS THAN LETHAL. WE HAVE NOTICED TO DESMOND'S POINT EARLIER IT SEEMS LIKE MORE PEOPLE ARE GATHERING AT THE PROTEST SITE AT ALUMNI PART. THAT'S WHAT WE OBSERVED EARLIER WHEN INITIALLY OFFICER STORMED IN. THERE WERE MAYBE HUNDREDS AND EASILY WITHIN THE FIRST 10 MINUTES OF OFFICERS COMING IN AND TRYING TO TAKE THOSE TENTS AWAY MORE STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS STORMED INTO ALUMNI PARK AND THAT'S WHEN THE CHAOS ERUPTED. THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE GROUND CHANTING AND PEOPLE NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO GO AS OFFICERS CONTINUE TO COME IN AND TAKE THOSE TENTS AWAY AND EMOTIONS WERE HEIGHTENED AND POTENTIALLY THINGS GETTING DANGEROUS. WE WERE IN FRONT OF THE GLASS BOTTLE THAT WAS THROWN AND GLASS SHATTERED EVERYWHERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR THIS TO ESCALATE AND FOR EMOTIONS TO CONTINUE TO BE HEIGHTENED ONCE LAPD OFFICERS MOVE TOWARDS ALUMNI PARK IF PROTESTERS DECIDE THEY DO NOT WANT TO LEAVE AND ONCE AGAIN BEFORE COMING TO THIS AREA WHERE LAPD OFFICERS ARE IN FORMATION WE SPOKE TO PROTESTERS AND THEY TOLD US POINTBLANK WE ARE NOT GOING TO MOVE. WE ARE GOING TO STAY AND WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD BECAUSE WE ARE HERE FOR A REASON NOT ONLY TO BE HEARD BUT TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT WE WANT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. AGAIN WE ARE NOW WAITING TO SEE WHAT THOSE ORDERS ARE AND IF LAPD WILL GO INTO ALUMNI PARK AND YOU'LL NOTICE JOHN OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE SEEN LAPD OFFICERS THERE THAT EVEN BACK FURTHER WE SEE MORE ON STANDBY JUST IN CASE SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENS. LOTS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE LOTS OF BOOTS ON THE GROUND RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST AWAITED THE APPROACH UNTIL WE GET MORE INFORMATION ULTIMATELY UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT THE PROTESTERS THAT ARE PART OF THIS PRO PALESTINIAN PROTEST ARE IN FACT GOING TO LEAVE CLOSER TO THAT TEN-MINUTE MARK OR IF THEY ARE GOING TO STAY. WE WILL ALL SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. >> LUZDELIA THANK YOU. WE WANT TO GO TO DESMOND SHAW. WE SAW LAPD RIGHT THERE IN FORMATION ON STANDBY JUST IN CASE ANYTHING HAPPENS. WE TALKED ABOUT POLICE TACTICS INVOLVING THE SITUATION LIKE THIS AND THERE'S ANOTHER COMPONENT TO THIS. WE TALK ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA EVERYONE HAVING THEIR CELLPHONES OUT THE LAPD AND THE OFFICERS ON THE SCENE HAVE TO RESPOND TO THIS IN A CORRECT WAY BECAUSE THOSE CELLPHONES ARE ROLLING AND PEOPLE ARE PAYING ATTENTION. >> ABSOLUTELY AND WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION AND REALLY EVERYONE IS. THE ENTIRE COUNTRY HAS BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING FROM COAST TO COAST AT A LOT OF UNIVERSITIES AM THAT'S BEEN COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS LAPD HAS BEEN UNDER THE MICROSCOPE FOR A LOT OF OTHER REASONS AS WELL. A LOT OF CONFOUNDING FACTORS FOR POLICE TO TRY TO HANDLE THE SITUATION, VERY EMOTIONAL, EMOTIONALLY CHARGED SITUATION BUT IT'S ALMOST, WE HEARD THE CHANCE BACK IN LUZDELIA'S REPORT AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE PROTESTERS ARE GEARING LAPD TO COMMENT AND HAVE THEM DISPERSE. I WOULD GUESS WHEN THAT HAPPENS THEY ARE PROBABLY GOING TO SURROUND THE PROTESTERS AND THEIR WAY KIND OF PERHAPS LIKE THREE-QUARTERS OF THE CIRCLE FASHION TO PUSH THEM INTO ONE DIRECTION AND THAT THEY STILL CONTINUE TO DEFY THAT DISPERSAL ORDER THAT IS WHEN WE COULD BEGIN TO SEE SOME ARRESTS OUT HERE TONIGHT AT USC. >> DOESN'T THANK YOU AND YOU ARE LOOKING AT LIVE PICTURES FROM THE CAMPUS OF USC. THE PROTESTS ARE STILL HAPPENING. SO FAR PEACEFUL AND WE HAD ONE INCIDENT WHERE SOMEONE WAS ARRESTED AND THEN RELEASED. YOU SEE RIGHT THERE AT LAPD INFORMATION ON STANDBY. OUR COVERAGE OF THIS PROTEST CONTINUES WITH TOM WAIT. >> TOM IS LIVE ON THE GROUND FROM A DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINT THAN LUZDELIA. >> GOOD EVENING SUZIE AND SALTY. RIGHT NOW TO PEACEFUL PROTEST AT THE CENTER OF THE PARK CHANTING AND DRUMMING. I CAN'T SEE TOO WELL HOW FAR OFF THE LAPD OFFICERS ARE. THEY ARE FAR ENOUGH CHAT THAT I DON'T KNOW ANYONE AT THIS PART OF THE PARK WHERE I AM NECESSARILY HEARD THEM. I ARRIVED 15 MINUTES AGO AN ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE IN THE PARK. THERE WAS ANOTHER LINE OF OFFICERS THOUGH IN ANOTHER DIRECTION SO THERE'S ALSO THAT BUT IT'S NOT A HUGE CROWD AT THIS SECTION. IT'S DEFINITELY A SIZABLE CROWD AND YOU COULD SEE IT FROM SKY BUT CERTAINLY RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST CHANTING AND DRUMMING AND PEOPLE SITTING ON THE GROUND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROWD. MOST PEOPLE THAT I CAN SEE ARE JUST KIND OF MILLING ABOUT. IT'S UNCLEAR IF THEY WILL TAKE THOSE ORDERS AND OBVIOUSLY THAT WILL BE THE BIG QUESTION. WILL PEOPLE COMPLY WHEN AND IF LAPD DOES GIVE THE ORDER? HERE WE GO. THERE IS THE CHOPPER, THE LAPD CHOPPER CIRCLING RIGHT NOW INSTRUCTING PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE PARK. SOME PEOPLE ARE MAKING SOME GESTURES LETS JUST CALL THEM.COM AT THE CHOPPER SO THERE SOMEDAY FINDS THERE BUT LAPD CHOPPER HOVERING FAIRLY LOW MAKING AN ANNOUNCEMENT SAYING THAT THE PARK NEEDS TO BE CLEARED. I GUESS WE'LL JUST WAIT AND SEE NOW IF THAT ORDER IS FOLLOWED BY THE PEOPLE IN THE PARK. IT'S BEEN CLEAR TO ME BASED ON WHAT I'M SEEING HERE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE STUDENTS AT HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME FROM OUTSIDE TWO JOIN THE PROTEST AND THERE'S A DIFFERENT RANGES OF PEOPLE IN A RANGE OF BACKGROUNDS THAT ARE JOINING IN THIS PROTEST TO SPOTLIGHT THEIR OPPOSITION TO THE SITUATION PLAYING OUT IN GAZA RIGHT NOW. AS WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING ON THESE PROTESTS GOING ON TO ROUT THE DAY TODAY AS WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THERE WAS A NUMBER OF SKIRMISHES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AS WELL. THAT'S THE LATEST FROM THIS SPOT HERE AND WILL MONITOR THE SITUATION AND THEY'LL SEND IT BACK TO YOU. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH TOM AND AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN IT LOOKS LIKE OFFICERS ARE MOVING INTO PLACE RIGHT NOW AND LUZDELIA CABALLERO IS WALKING RIGHT ALONGSIDE THEM. CAN YOU HEAR US? >> YES WE CAN ABSOLUTELY HEAR YOU. BEWARE THERE WHEN THE LAPD GOT THE ORDER TO GO AHEAD AND PROCEED AS WE NEAR A ALUMNI PARK. WE ARE SEEING THAT THERE ARE STILL PROTESTERS HERE. THEY ARE STILL MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. WE DO WANT TO NOTE THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY HERE AT USC GAVE PROTESTERS A WARNING SAYING HEY YOU HAVE 10 MINUTES TO LEAVE YOU ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY SO WE WILL GIVE YOU 10 MINUTES AND AFTER THOSE 10 MINUTES YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW AS YOU ARE VIOLATING BEING HERE. IT SEEMS LIKE NOW THEY ARE MOVING IN. WE ARE ALONGSIDE THEM AND WE ARE BEING SAFE ABOUT THIS BUT WE WILL WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE IS THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE CLOSER TO THESE PROTESTERS. AGAIN THIS HAVE TO BE HANDLED IN A VERY SENSITIVE WAY BECAUSE EARLIER WE SAW WHEN OFFICERS STORMED IN TO TAKE THE TENSE FROM THESE PROTESTERS INSTEAD OF LEAVING THEY LIFTED UP THOSE PANTS AND THEY STARTED MARCHING AND THEY STAYED IN THAT ESCALATED INTO ONE OF THE PROTESTERS BEING DETAINED AND BEING PUT INTO A PATROL CAR AND EVENTUALLY BEING RELEASE. WE ALSO KNOW BECAUSE THE EMOTIONS WERE SO HIGH IT'S A VERY TENSE SUBJECT PROTESTERS ULTIMATELY SURROUNDED THAT PATROL VEHICLE. YOU SEE LAPD UP THOSE ARE STORMING IN AND RUNNING AND AS WE GO OVER TO THE RIGHT WE WILL SEE SOME PROTESTERS ARE MOVING. OTHERS ARE STAYING RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE. SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE BEING STRATEGIC ABOUT THIS TRYING TO BE AS ORDERLY AS THEY CAN. I THINK THEY ARE AWARE THAT MANY EYES ARE ON THEM IN THE SKY AND ALSO ON THE GROUND. YOU HAVE MADE GREAT POINTS OF EVERYONE HAVING THEIR SO-CALLED SEVEN NOT ONLY CELLPHONES THE CAMERAS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS HERE. WE WILL SEE IF THEY ULTIMATELY END UP STORMING ALUMNI PARK. AS THEY SAID THEY WOULD TUBE REMOVED -- THEY HAVE FOOD HERE AND THEY HAVE A TENT SET UP AND THEY HAVE PIZZA AND CORSAIR PROTESTERS ALL ALONG THE SIDE OF THE NEIGHBORING LIBRARY SO IT IS GOING TO TAKE QUITE AN EFFORT TO GET ALL OF THESE PEOPLE OUT THAT CLEARLY DO NOT WANT TO BE REMOVED AND THEY CONTINUE TO SHARE THEIR MESSAGE. IT SHOULD BE WORTH NOTING THAT THE MESSAGE WAS SENT OUT BY THE PROVOST EARLIER AND HE WAS VERY CLEAR AND THAT USC DOES PROTECT FREE SPEECH BUT THERE ARE RULES AND THERE ARE RULES IN PLACE TO PROTECT ALL STUDENTS INVOLVED SAYING THE UNIVERSITY VALUES FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND PROTECTS THE RIGHT OF EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES BUT THERE ARE LIMITS ON THE TIME, PLACE AND MANNER OF FREE EXPRESSION AND AGAIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY MADE IT VERY, VERY CLEAR THAT THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND ALL PROTESTERS NEEDED TO LEAVE IN 10 MINUTES. TO OUR RIGHT YOU ARE GOING TO START SEEING MORE OF THOSE PROTESTERS GATHERING AND AGAIN THEY ARE NOT LEAVING. THEY ARE STAYING RIGHT THERE. YOU CAN SEE THOSE LETTER SIGNS THAT SAY LET GAZA LIVE. THEY HAVE BEEN THERE ALL MORNING LONG IT SEEMS LIKE INSTEAD OF STAYING AT ALUMNI PARK THEY ARE GOING TO ADJACENT BUILDINGS TO WE WILL ULTIMATELY WAIT HERE AND SEE HOW THIS ALL SHAKES OUT THAT WE ARE SEEING LAPD OFFICERS ARE FORMING A LINE AND THEY HAVE THEIR BATONS OUT AND SOME HAVE GUNS WITH LESS THAN LETHAL ROUNDS, ESSENTIALLY ARMED WITH BULLETS. WE SEE THESE COMING UP IN PROTEST. WE ALSO SAW THE LAPD METRO DIVISION ON STANDBY SHOULD THIS GO SOUTH. AGAIN A LOT OF THINGS ARE DEVELOPING AT THIS TIME. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THE LAPD HAS MOVED CLOSER TO THESE PROTESTERS THAT BUT THEY ARE CERTAINLY STARTING TO BLOCK THINGS OFF WITH THIS LINE BUT TONS ENHANCED AND REALLY STARTING TO STRATEGIZE HOW IT IS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO MOVE THEM AND GET ALL OF THESE PROTESTERS OUT. >> LUZDELIA WE ARE COUNTING DOWN 10 MINUTES FROM WHEN POLICE GET THAT WARNING WAS LAPD OFFICERS RUSH IN. LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE PUTTING A PERIMETER AROUND THE PROTESTERS. DOES THAT SEEM FROM YOUR VANTAGE POINT WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE POLICE PERFORMING A PERIMETER AROUND THE PROTESTERS? >> I'M BEHIND A LINE OF SERVING WHAT WE SAW EARLIER, YES IF YOU CAN HEAR ME WHERE BEHIND THE LINE BUT WE CAN SEE THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PROTESTERS FACING THE POLICE LINE. WHAT WE SAW EARLIER WHEN OFFICERS INITIALLY MADE CONTACT WITH PROTESTERS WHEN THEY WERE REMOVING THOSE TENTS MORE PROTESTERS STARTED A IN FRONT OF THE LINE OF POLICE OFFICERS AND THIS IS EARLIER THIS MORNING. RIGHT NOW I'M ANTICIPATING MORE PROTESTERS ARE GOING TO START APPROACHING THE POLICE LINE. AGAIN THESE OFFICERS HAVE THEIR BATONS IN HAND AND THEY WERE GIVEN AN ORDER TO ESSENTIALLY BREAK THE PROTEST DOWN AND START FILTERING OUT THESE PEOPLE OUT. AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE STARTING TO APPROACH THIS LINE. WE SAW MORE OF HIS EARLIERAND THINGS STARTED GOING SOUTH AFTER PROTESTERS STARTING GETTING CLOSER. WE WANT TO STAY SAFE THIS WEEKEND BUT AGAIN YOU ARE STARTING TO SEE PROTESTERS ARE NOTICING THIS LINE AND IT'S A LINE THAT MAY START MOVING FORWARD SOON. >> IT LOOKS LIKE. >> THEY ARE SAYING TO STEP BACK FOR SAFETY PURPOSES. >> LUZDELIA ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN PROTESTERS ARE LOCKING ARMS AND HOLDING UP THEIR SIGNED AND NOT SHOWING ANY SIGNS OF ACTUALLY MOVING AND HEATING THE ORDERS, THE DISPERSAL ORDERS FROM LAPD. I WANT TO GO BACK UPSTAIRS TO DESMOND SHAW FOR A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING. WHAT DO YOU SEE FROM YOUR VANTAGE POINT DESMOND? >> WE SAW DURING LUZDELIA'S REPORT HOW LAPD CAME OUT WITH A RAPID DEPLOYMENT. ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY SCATTERED IN ALL DIRECTIONS VERY QUICKLY TO TRY TO GAIN POSITION STRATEGICALLY AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO FRANKLY THROW THE PROTESTERS OFF A LITTLE BIT. THEY ARE STARTING TO SURROUNDED FROM THE SITE. THEY ARE GIVING EVERYONE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAR TO THE NORTH AND AWAY FROM ALUMNI PARK IF THEY WANT. EVERY MOVE THEY ARE TAKING IS JUST KIND OF LIKE A COUNTDOWN TOWARDS BEING ARRESTED. WE SAW THEM EARLIER AND THEY CAME OUT AND MADE THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN AND WENT BACK BEHIND SOME BUILDINGS AND NOW THEY HAVE RUSHED BACK OUT AND THEY HAVE SURROUNDED THE PARK AND THEY ARE STILL APPARENTLY GIVING PROTESTERS ONE MORE CHANCE. LAPD HELICOPTERS SWOOPED IN QUICKLY GAVE THE DISPERSAL ORDER SO THEY ARE GIVING THESE FOLKS AS MANY OPPORTUNITIES AS POSSIBLE TO DISPERSE WITHOUT INCIDENT BUT AND IT HAS WORKED FOR A FAIR NUMBER OF PROTESTERS. DEFINITELY WE SAW QUITE A FEW MORE PEOPLE IN THIS AREA AND QUITE A FEW SCATTERED AS SOON AS THEY SAW IT AND THE PROTESTERS HAVE BEEN OUT YOUR CENSUS MORNING A LOT OF PEOPLE ASSIGNED CLOSED RANKS INTO A CIRCLE AS A DOUBLE AND THEN I APOLOGIZE THERE ARE SO MANY TREES AROUND HERE TO MAKE THAT DIFFICULT TO GET A GREAT LOOK. OFFICERS NEARBY AND EYES I WIND OUT THESE ARE STUDENTS THAT HAVE GATHERED BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SEE HOW THIS IS GOING TO GO DOWN AND I BELIEVE THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN PROTESTING THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. OBVIOUSLY THE NEWS HAS SPREAD ACROSS THE CAMPUS OF USC WHERE THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS ON ANY GIVEN DAY. THIS IS ALMOST THE PEAK TIME OF CLASSES ANYWAY OR CLOSE TO IT I SHOULD SAY. WE HAVE PROTESTERS, A LOT OF STUDENTS JUST OBSERVING AS WELL AS LAPD AND ALL OF THEM GETTING READY TO INTERACT AND I JUST HOPE TEMPERS DON'T PLAY HER TOO MUCH HERE AND HOPEFULLY WE DON'T SEE ANY BOTTLES BEING THROWN. WE HAVE SEEN THAT HAPPEN IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT SITUATIONS WHERE SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS AND IT CHANGES THE ENTIRE TENOR OF THE PROTEST AND NO LAPD HANDLES IT. >> DESMOND THANK YOU. >> WE WANT TO GO BACK TO TOM WAIT IS ALSO ON THE GROUND. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING FROM YOUR VANTAGE POINT? >> CHAUNCY AND SUZIE IT DOES APPEAR THAT LEAST A LITTLE BIT THAT THE CROWD IS THINNING OUT SOMEWHAT. TAKING A LIFE LIVE LOOK HERE AT THE FOLKS THAT ARE STILL IN THE PARK. THEY ARE LOCKING ARMS AROUND STUDENTS ON THE GROUND BUT IT'S NOT A HUGE GROUP. THERE ARE A LOT OF ONLOOKERS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE PARK OR LOOKING IN AND MAYBE SOME OF THE PEOPLE TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDER TO LEAVE BUT JUST A LOT OF CHANTING AND PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT AND TALKING RIGHT NOW. YOU CAN HEAR THE DRUMMING AND IT WAS TENSE FOR A FEW MINUTES OR SO WHEN THE POLICE MOVED IN AND FORMED A LINE BUT THEN THEY BACKED OFF AND WERE ORDERED TO MOVE BEHIND SOME BUSHES. LET'S SHOW HOW CLOSE THE POLICE THERE BUT YOU CAN SEE OVER HERE WERE THE POLICE AREN'T POSITIONED THERE BY THE HEDGE. YOU GET A SENSE OF WHERE THEY WERE. THEY WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND THEN THERE WAS AN ORDER FOR THEM TO MOVE TO THE OTHER SIDE SO POLICE TRYING TO POSSIBLY AVOID TENSE COMPLEX IF IT DOES COME TO THAT. WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN BUT A VERY LARGE GROUP OF STUDENTS HERE. IF WE WANT TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THE GROUP IT'S NOT THE VERY LARGE GROUP BUT THERE ARE PROBABLY MORE PEOPLE LOOKING INTO THE PARK THEN THERE ARE IN IT AT THIS POINT. NOW I GUESS THE QUESTION IS HOW LONG TO LAPD OFFERS ARE SOME OF PERIMETER HOW LONG DID THEY WAIT AND DO THEY EVENTUALLY MOVE AND? TO LAPD CHOPPER DID MAKE A FEW CIRCLES A FEW PASSES OVER HERE AND ORDERED PEOPLE OUT OF THE PARK. YOU COULD HEAR IT OVER THE LOUDSPEAKER BUT SO FAR AS LEAST A NUMBER OF FEW THOUSAND ARE STILL HERE AND HAVE NOT LEFT. WE HAVE CHANTING, VERY PEACEFUL, NOTHING RIGHT NOW OTHER THAN PEOPLE REMAINING WHEN THEY'VE BEEN TOLD TO LEAVE SO IT'S ONE OF THOSE TENSE SITUATIONS WHERE YOU WAIT AND SEE WHAT THE POLICE OFFICERS DO. OFTENTIMES IN THESE CASES POLICE MOVED IN STAGES. THEY GET INCREMENTALLY CLOSER AND CLOSER AND TRANSFER THE PRESSURE TO THE SITUATION PEOPLE GETTING THE IDEA THAT SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. THAT DOES HAVE AN IMPACT SOMETIMES ON PEOPLE TO LEAVE BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S FAIRLY STATIC. THAT'S WHERE WE STAND RIGHT NOW. >> LET'S TAKE YOU OVER THAT HEDGE THAT TOM WAS ALLUDING TO. LUZDELIA CABALLERO IS THERE AND OFFICERS ARE MOVING IN. THAT'S TAKE A LOOK AND SEE WHAT SHE HAS FOR US. >> WE SEE MORE BOOTS ON THE GROUND. THIS LINE OF OFFICERS THAT JUST GOT HERE MAYBE TWO MINUTES AGO AND THEN THERE'S THE METRO DIVISIONS OF BEHIND THEM STANDING BY FOR ORDERS. IT SEEMS LIKE FROM WHAT WE CAN HEAR THE SERGEANT SAY THEY KIND OF WANT TO BLOCK OFF THIS PERIMETER. WHAT WE ARE NOTICING IS THERE ARE A LOT OF ONLOOKERS ON THE POLICE LINE. THEY CLEARLY KNOW BEHIND THE POLICE LINE THEY SHOULD BE SAFE THAN THEY ARE TALKING AMONGST THEMSELVES A FEW USC STUDENTS THAT THEY JUST WANT TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO WERE JUST WONDERING WHAT'S GOING ON AND JUST WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. YOU ALSO SEE OFFICERS ON THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY SAFETY AT USA LINING THE PERIMETER. SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A DOUBLE LINE. LAPD OFFERS IS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AT USC. AGAIN THIS PROTEST AS IT NOW SEEMS PEACEFUL. WE HEAR CHANTING AND PEOPLE HAVE REMOVED THEMSELVES FROM THE FRONT OF THE POLICE LINE WHICH WE SAW EARLIER. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A POINT OF CONCERN. IT COULD HAVE ESCALATED AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A POINT OF CONCERN. IT COULD HAVE ESCALATED RATHER QUICKLY LIKE WE SAW EARLIER. AT THIS TIME IT'S RATHER PEACEFUL AND PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO TALK TO OFFICERS AND MAYBE ASK THEM QUESTIONS BUT IN THE VERY PEACEFUL WAY. THE USC DIVEST FROM DEBT COALITION WHICH IS THE GROUP THAT ORGANIZES PROTEST RELEASE SIX DEMANDS OF THE UNIVERSITY AND THEY HAVE BEEN CHANTING THEM ALL MORNING, ALBEIT LONG INCLUDING ENDING WAR PROFITEERING AND INVESTMENT IN GENOCIDE AND PROTECTING FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS. IT'S WORTH MENTIONING THAT THIS COMES ON THE HEELS OF USC THING ON THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT AFTER COMPLETELY MIXING ITS VALEDICTORIAN SPEECH. MIND YOU SHE HAS A MINOR IN RESISTANCE TO GENOCIDE SO THIS IS SOMETHING STUDENTS HERE AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE EXPRESSING CONCERNS AND NOT SUPPORTING THE UNIVERSITY'S DECISION. THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT A LOT TODAY AND AS OF NOW CLEARLY WE HAVE ON LOOKERS BEHIND US AND WE HAVE PROTESTERS NOW ISOLATING THEMSELVES CLOSER TO THE MAIN BUILDINGS. AGAIN IT'S A WAIT AND SEE APPROACH TO SEE HOW LAPD CHOOSES TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THEIR APPROACH TO CLEAR OUT THIS AREA BUT ONE THING WE KNOW FOR SURE IT WILL NEED TO BE HANDLED IN A DELICATE WAY BECAUSE PEOPLE HERE ARE PASSIONATE AND EMOTIONS CAN ESCALATE THINGS VERY QUICKLY AS WE SAW ON THE MORNING. BUT FOR NOW IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE JUST STAYING PUT AND THEY ARE WAITING FOR ORDERS TO PROCEED AND MOVE FORWARD. THAT'S THE LATEST FROM THE GROUND HERE. >> LUZDELIA WE KNOW THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH A MAJOR PART OF A LOT OF PROTESTS THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON A PEOPLE UPSET ABOUT THAT DECISION. THE UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS SAYING THEY MADE THAT DECISION CITING SAFETY CONCERNS SEEMINGLY PROBABLY TRYING TO AVOID A SCENE LIKE THIS ON GRADUATION DAY. WE DO KNOW THAT WHEN PROTESTERS AND DEMONSTRATORS HAVE THESE DEMONSTRATIONS LIKE THIS OFTENTIMES THERE WILL BE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND FROM DIFFERENT ADVOCACY GROUPS OR ORGANIZATIONS GIVING RESOURCE INFORMATION JUST IN CASE YOU GO TO JAIL. WE DID SEE ONE WOMAN WALKING AROUND AND RIDING A NUMBER OF PEOPLE'S HANDS. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT NUMBER WAS FOR JAIL SUPPORT L.A. GIVING THAT TO PEOPLE THERE WITH THEIR ARMS LOCKED SEEMINGLY LIKE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO MOVE AND THEY DO PLAN TO GO TO JAIL WHEN THIS IS ALL SAID AND DONE. >> I WANT TO GO BACK ON THE GROUND TO OUR TOM WAIT IS STANDING BY WITH ANOTHER LOOK FOR US. I KNOW THE CAMPUS WAS CLOSED OFF EARLIER TODAY. WAS IT DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO GET ON CAMPUS AND DID IT SEEM LIKE THE SAME SITUATION FOR OTHERS WHO ARE TRYING TO GET ON-CAMPUS? >> YOU KNOW WHAT SUZIE WE DID SEE SOME PEOPLE HAVING A CHALLENGING TIME GETTING ON THE CAMPS AND THERE ARE SOME COMMOTION HERE. NOT REALLY SURE WHAT'S GOING ON AT THIS MOMENT BUT EVERYONE IS MOVING. IT'S LIKE A MOP, NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE BUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE INFORMED AS THE POLICE STARTED MOVING BUT IT'S A STRANGE SITUATION. I'M NOT SURE THAT CROWDS ARE REACTING TO SOMETHING BUT I CAN'T TELL EXACTLY WHY. POLICE ARE MOVING AROUND MAYBE A TACTIC TO GET PEOPLE TO REACT AND MOVE. LET SHOW THE CROWD FROM THIS ANGLE WHAT'S LEFT HERE IN THE PARK. AGAIN NOT MANY PEOPLE HERE LEFT IN THE PARK. IT'S JUST THE CIRCLE OF PEOPLE SURROUNDING PEOPLE SITTING DOWN IN THE MIDDLE SO IT HUGE AMOUNT OF ONLOOKERS OVER THERE, NOT HUGE BUT SEVERAL THOUSAND MAYBE A COUPLE HUNDRED ONLOOKERS AND OUTSIDE. THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE OVER THERE I THINK, THERE CERTAINLY IS THAN PEOPLE LEFT IN THE PARK. BUT NOW WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THE CROWD IS FORMING AROUND THE POLICE OFFICERS IT LOOKS LIKE AND THEY ARE CHANTING IN THE FACES OF THE POLICE OFFICERS. NOW AGAIN THE MOB IS MOVING ONCE AGAIN PERHAPS FOLLOWING THE POLICE OFFICERS TO THE CAMPUS. IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT SORT OF PROMPTING THIS SURGE AND SEEING EVERYONE MOVING VERY QUICKLY THERE. THERE'S ALSO A TON OF MEDIA AS WELL. THERE'S PROBABLY MORE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND REPORTERS. LET'S GO TO LUZDELIA CABALLERO SHE IS WHERE OFFICERS ARE MOVING. LUZDELIA. >> HEY TOM IT SEEMS LIKE THE CROWD IS MOVING WITH THEM AND MOVED BACK. WE ARE IN A SITUATION WHERE THE CROWD IS MUCH CLOSER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. WE ALSO HAVE MEDIA. SEEMS LIKE THE PROTESTERS ARE GETTING A LOT CLOSER TO OFFICERS AND IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE TAKING THIS APPROACH WERE THEY CLOSE OFF THE PERIMETER MOVE CLOSER AND MOVE FORWARD. I THINK THAT'S TO ENCOURAGE PROTESTERS TO START GETTING AWAY FROM THE PARK WHICH WAS THEIR INITIAL GOAL TO CLEAR THE PARK OUT AND AT THIS POINT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL PEOPLE, MAYBE 100 PEOPLE AT ALUMNI PARK AT THIS TIME. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SINCE DISPERSED. AGAIN MINING THE NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS. AND THEY CONTINUE CHANTING AND IT SEEMS LIKE AT THIS TIME THEY -- THE PROTESTERS ALMOST SEEM LIKE THEY ARE MORE CONFIDENT IN MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. THIS IS SOMETHING WE SAW EARLIER THIS MORNING WHEN AN OFFICER STARTED APPROACHING AND GETTING CLOSER. WE STARTED SEEING THESE CONFRONTATIONS AND PROTESTERS STARTING TO BE PASSIONATE AND SHARE WHAT THEY FEEL. AS A RESULT THINGS ESCALATED RATHER QUICKLY. WE ARE BEING MOVED A LITTLE BIT GUYS SO WE ARE TRYING TO STAY SAFE HERE. IT SEEMS LIKE PROTESTERS ARE STARTING TO GET CLOSER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD TO ENCOURAGE THE CROWD TO START MOVING AWAY FROM THE PARK AND EVENTUALLY DISPERSE. I DON'T THINK THIS WILL HAPPEN WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE, 10 OR 15 MINUTES BUT I THINK WE ARE LOOKING POTENTIALLY HOURS. PROTESTERS KNOW THAT THEY WANT TO BE HERE AND IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE ANYTHING OR ANYONE IS GOING TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THIS AREA. GUYS. >> THANKS A LOT LUZDELIA. POLICE ARE MOVING IN CLOSER TO THE PROTESTERS. WE WANT TO GO BACK TO DESMOND SHAW. DESMOND WHAT ARE YOU SEEING? >> CHAUNCY AND SUZIE MORE LAPD OFFICERS DEPLOYING AND THIS IS THE WEST SIDE OF ALUMNI PARK WHERE THEY BASICALLY HAVE ALL THE PROTESTERS SURROUNDED. I'LL SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT AT A TIME WITH ALL THE TREES WE HAVE. THEY HAVE DISPERSED AROUND THE PROTESTERS IN THIS AREA BENEATH THESE TREES BUT SEVERAL DOZEN OF THEM RIGHT NOW WITH THEIR ARMS LOCKED AND THESE ARE DEFINITELY PART OF THE PROTESTERS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE READY TO BE ARRESTED FRANKLY.% PASSIONATE PROTESTERS WEAR THAT AS A BADGE OF HONOR SO THAT IS MOST LIKELY INEVITABLE FOR THEM BUT LAPD STILL WANT TO GIVE THEM EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE IF THEY WANT. MANY PEOPLE I DON'T THINK WOULD BE ARRESTED RIGHT NOW. THEY ARE ACTUALLY STEALING THE PARK OFF FROM ANYONE COMING IN AND THEN PREVENTING ANYONE FROM TRYING TO LEAVE IF THEY WANT. AFTER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME THEY ARE PROBABLY GOING TO CLOSE RANKS AND AT THE SAME TIME AND THEY WILL COME IN TO WHERE THE PROTESTERS ARE AND THEY WILL PROBABLY BEGIN TO SLAP HANDCUFFS ON ALL OF THEM SIMULTANEOUSLY AND TRY TO DEFUSE THIS WITHOUT ANY FURTHER INCIDENT. THE PROTESTERS FRANKLY THESE LOOK LIKE THEY ARE READY FOR A PARTICULAR TO WHERE THIS IS FROM JUST AN HOUR OR SO AGO WHERE THERE WERE THREE OR PERHAPS FOUR TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE OUT HERE BUT THESE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE DECIDED THEY ARE GOING TO STAY UNTIL THEY ARE FORCEFULLY REMOVED REMOVED. ALBRIGHTON OUT AND SHOW YOU WE NOTICED EARLIER MY PILOT SHOWED ME IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS ANOTHER PROTEST HAPPENING OUT HERE ON THE STREET. NOW THEY ARE AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF THIS IS EXPOSITION JEFFERSON AND HOOVER STREET. YOU CAN SEE THESE MAY HAVE BEEN FOLKS THAT WERE IN THE PARK EARLIER AND THEY HAVE NOW COME OUT AND YOU SEE THE PALESTINIAN PALESTINIAN FLAG THAT COME OUT OF THE STREET. THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER SITUATION. WE'LL SEE HOW LONG THAT LASTS AND WHAT THE UNIVERSITY AND LAPD IF THEY WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT THAT. BUT BACK TO UNIVERSITY PARK WHERE WE ARE WAITING TO SEE FURTHER ACTION FROM LAPD GIVING PROTESTERS AMPLE OPPORTUNITY AND FRANKLY SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO LEAVE IF THEY WANT TO AVOID BEING ARRESTED. >> AMPLE OPPORTUNITY IS DESMOND WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT HER SHORTLY AFTER 5:00 THIS EVENING IS WHERE WE HEARD DISPERAL ORDERS GOING OUT MULTIPLE TIMES NOT JUST FROM GROUND OFFICERS BY LAPD BUT ALSO THE CHOPPER IN THE SKY. BUTS TALK TO TOM WAIT WHO'S LIVE ON THE GROUND TO SHOW US WHAT'S HAPPENING. TOM. >> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN HEAR ME I LOST MY IDEA FOR A SECOND HERE BUT I THINK I'VE FIGURED OUT GOING ON HERE BUT IT LOOKS LIKE EVERY TIME THE LAPD OFFICER SHIFTED THEIR FORMATION INFORMED A LINE TO BLOCK THE PARK THAT'S WHY THE CLOUD -- THE CROWD SURGES COULD WE SEE OH MY GOSH WOW YOU CAN SEE IN THE DISTANCE THERE'S A SKIRMISH UNFOLDING RIGHT NOW. SOMEONE JUST SQUIRTED SOMETHING INTO THE CROWD AND THEY ARE BEING CHASED DOWN. THIS COULD TURN VERY VERY FAST. THEY ARE THROWING THINGS AT THE OFFICERS IT LOOKS LIKE FLUID. WE ARE LOOKING AND I'M WALKING OVER TO GET CLOSER TO SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T WANT TO GET IN THE MIDDLE OF OFFICERS MAKING ARREST BUT YOU CAN SEE THE CHOPPER AND NOW PEOPLE ARE RUNNING APPARENTLY INTO ME. SO IT'S GETTING TENSE OBVIOUSLY BUT BUT THIS IS NOT WHAT WE WANO SEE. WE WANTED TO SEE THIS AND PEACEFUL LAND FOR PEOPLE TO LEAVE PEACEFULLY AND NOW THIS IS BECOMING WITH PEOPLE THROWING THINGS AT OFFICERS AND I CAN'T SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE BUT OFFICERS HAVE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR OWN SAFETY AS NOW THEY ARE BEING THREATENED CLEARLY. THEIR SAFETY CERTAINLY IS AN ISSUE NOW. ALL WE CAN DO IS WATCH THIS UNFOLD AND HOPE PEOPLE OBEY THE ORDERS. IT LOOKED LIKE WHEN THE CROWD WAS SEARCHING BUT NOW WE HAVE SOME FLUID BEING PROMPTED IT LOOKED LIKE WATER BUT IT COULD BE SOMETHING ELSE PAY PER -- PEOPLE THROWING WATER POSSIBLY AT OFFICERS. AT FIRST PEOPLE WERE SURGING IN MOVING TO GET OUT OF THE WAY AND IT LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE PUSHING BACK THE ONLOOKERS AND THAT'S WHAT THEY CONTINUE TO DO BUT THEY CONTAINED A FORMAL LINE AS IT GETS LONGER AND LONGER AS THEY MOVE. BECOMES CLEAR THE CROWD IS BECOMING MORE AGITATED. SOMEONE JUST THREW MORE LIQUID INTO THE CROWD. LUZDELIA LET'S GO OVER TO YOU. [CHANTING] >> HEY GUYS I'VE BEEN HIT BY TWO WATER BOTTLES NOW IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE GETTING READY TO DEPLOY LESS THAN LETHAL. WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS AGAIN AND THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE PEOPLE ARE VERY EMOTIONAL AND VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS ISSUE. YOU CAN SEE THEY ARE STARTING TO THROW WATER AT OFFICERS AND THEY ARE RESPONDING. ONE WOMAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AT LEAST ONE THAT WE HAVE SEEN AND IT SEEMS LIKE AGAIN THE CROWD IS WANTING HER TO BE, THIS IS MORE OF THE SAME THAT HAPPENED EARLIER THIS MORNING WHERE ONE PROTESTER WAS DETAINED. I THINK THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO TRY TO DO IS CONTINUE CHANTING UNTIL THEY LET THIS PROTESTER GO. AGAIN AT THIS POINT IT HAS GONE FROM PEACEFUL TO EMOTIONS HEIGHTENED AND LAPD OFFICERS ARE STARTING TO BE ON THE DEFENSIVE AND MORE AWARE OF WHAT IS GOING ON. THEY ARE NOT ALLOWING PEOPLE TO GET CLOSE AND THEY ARE MAKING IT VERY CLEAR THAT THEY ARE NOT MESSING AROUND AT THIS TIME. AGAIN THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF WATER BOTTLES BEING THROWN AT OFFICERS AND COINCIDENTALLY US BECAUSE WE ARE RIGHT THERE ON THE LINES. AGAIN IT SEEMS LIKE LAPD IS STARTING TO MOVE AND STARTING TO MOVE FORWARD. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE CLEARING OUT THE AREA. IF ANYTHING IT SEEMS LIKE PROTESTERS ARE MORE UPSET THAN THEY PLAN ON LEAVING IT ALL. WE SEE THE LINE STARTING TO MOVE AND THEY ARE TRYING TO BE AS STRATEGIC AS POSSIBLE AT THIS BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE FOLKS BEHIND THEM ARE TRYING TO MOVE IN. REALLY WHAT THEY ARE DEFENSIVE TACTIC IS. YOU ARE STARTING TO SEE PROTESTER STARTING TO GET CLOSE TO OFFICERS AND STARTING TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES. THIS IS WHAT WE SAW EARLIER AND THIS IS WHY. THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE WERE WORRIED THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN THAT THINGS WERE GOING TO ESCALATE IN THIS MANNER AND IT SEEMS LIKE MAYBE THEY ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO THE PARK AND POTENTIALLY MAKE MORE ARRESTS. MORE WATER BOTTLES ARE BEING THROWN AND WE SAW AN OFFICER POINTED HIS LESS THAN LETHAL WEAPON THAT HAS THE FOAM IN THE CROWD AFTER HE WAS HIT BY A WATER BOTTLE. PROTESTERS ARE PEACEFUL AND AS SOON AS OFFICERS MOVED IN IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S TRIGGERING THEM AND CAUSING THEM TO AS WE SAW THROW WATER BOTTLES AND GET VERY CLOSE TO THEM WHICH ULTIMATELY LED TO ONE PERSON BEING DETAINED HERE TODAY. WE ARE ALSO BEING TOLD TO STAY BEHIND A POLICE LINE FOR OUR AS YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE ARE NOT LEAVING. THEY ARE MOVING AND THEY ARE PIVOTING AND THEY ARE GETTING CLOSE TO ADJACENT BUILDINGS BUT THEY ARE NOT LEAVING THE AREA WHICH IS GOING TO BE A PROBLEM. THESE PROTESTERS MADE IT CLEAR FROM THE BEGINNING THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE. THEY ARE GOING TO WAIT THIS OUT UNTIL THE END SO WE'LL HAVE TO SEE HOW IT SHAKES OUT. CLEARLY LAPD IS MAKING IT VERY VERY CLEAR TO PROTESTERS THAT THEY ARE NOT MESSING AROUND AND THEY WANT PEOPLE TO HEED THEIR WARNINGS AND TO LISTEN. THEY WANT THEM TO CLEAR THE AREA AND THEY WANT THEM TO DO IT QUICKLY. CLEARLY THAT'S NOT HAPPENING. >> LUZDELIA THE WARNING THAT POLICE GAVE THE PROTESTERS TO CLEAR OUT THE PARK TO UC AND NEITHER PROTESTERS CLEARING OUT OR LEAVING? >> INITIALLY WE SAW SOME OF THEM STARTING TO CLEAR OUT. I SAW SOME OF THOSE WHO STARTED TO CLEAR OUT COME BACK IN ONCE IT SEEMED LIKE THINGS WERE CALMING DOWN. I'M SURE SOME LEFT AND STAYED AWAY BUT THE MAJORITY THEY JUST MOVED. IT DOESN'T SEEM AS CONDENSED OR LIKE A PAST -- A PACKED CROWD BUT IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE DISBURSED. ALUMNI PARK LOOKS FAIRLY CLEAR EXCEPT FOR ONE GROUP THAT IS LOCKED IN ARMS. I DON'T KNOW IF JOHN CAN SHOW YOU THE GROUP WALKED IN ARMS OVER HERE BUT THEY CONTINUE TO STAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARK. THAT'S A VERY LITTLE GROUP COMPARED TO ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEHIND THEM TO THE SIGHT OF THEM AND IN FRONT OF US CLOSE TO THIS POLICE LINE SO IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE PEOPLE ARE LEAVING. ONLY ONE WHEN LAPD IS CLOSER TO THEM SO ONE OFFICERS MOVED CLOSER WE NOTICE WHEN THEY DISPERSE AND HEED WARNINGS ONLY TO COME BACK IN AND START CHANTING SO IT SEEMS LIKE WE ARE SEEING REPETITION OF BEHAVIOR HERE AND WE ARE TRYING TO ANTICIPATED AS BEST WE CAN TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON BUT AGAIN IT SEEMS LIKE BOOTS ON THE GROUND ARE MOVING TO POTENTIALLY BLOCK OFF THE PARAMETER TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING CLOSE TO THE CENTER OF THE PARK SO THEY DON'T GATHER IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK BUT IT'S UNCLEAR. ALL WE KNOW NOW IS THAT THEY ARE MOVING MORE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO THIS AREA AND THEY ARE TRYING TO POTENTIALLY MAKE THE PERIMETER SO PEOPLE DON'T CENTER AROUND THIS PARK. >> LUZDELIA MAKE SURE YOU WHEN YOUR PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE SAFE OUT THERE. LET'S GO BACK TO DESMOND SHAW LIVE IN SKYCAL. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A FLUID SEEN IN A VERY DELICATE OPERATION FOR LAPD. >> ABSOLUTELY SUZIE AND CHAUNCY. YOU SEE WHAT AN INSANELY DIFFICULT POSITION THIS IS FOR LAPD. WHAT WE JUST WITNESSED WAS INCREDIBLY UNFORTUNATE BUT IT LOOKED LIKE FRANKLY THE PEOPLE, DON'T EVEN THINK THOSE WERE PROTESTERS PUT IT LOOK LIKE THOSE WERE THE PEOPLE THAT WERE GATHERING ON THE CAMPUS JUST TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED AND WHEN LAPD TRIED TO CUT THROUGH THE LINE INTO POSITION TO SURROUND THE PARK THAT'S WHEN WE SAW WATER BOTTLES BEING THROWN AT LAPD AND PEOPLE GETTING INTO THEIR FACE IS PUSHING OFFICERS. OFFICERS STARTED PUSHING BACK AS WE WOULD PROBABLY EXPECT AND OTHER PEOPLE STARTED GETTING INVOLVED IN IT ESCALATES FROM THERE. IT WAS THE EXAMPLE I SAID EARLIER ALL IT TAKES IS ONE WATERBOTTLE BEING THROWN. WE SEE IT HAPPEN AT ALMOST EVERY PROTEST THAT THIS HAPPENED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WHERE THINGS START OFF VERY PEACEFUL AND ALL IT TAKES IS SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND IT CHANGES EVERYTHING. LAPD NOW HAS THE GROUP COMPLETELY SURROUNDED. THEY WERE TRYING TO SEAL THE AREA OFTEN THEY DIDN'T LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE THERE WERE UP THERE SO NOW THEY HAVE THE PARK PRETTY MUCH COMPLETELY SURROUNDED AT THIS POINT NOT LETTING ANYONE ELSE GET INSIDE AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY MAY BE STARTING TO COME EXCUSE ME THEY MAY BE PREPARING TO MOVE IN EN MASSE AND TO REST SEVERAL PROTESTERS HERE THAT HAVE DECIDED THAT THEY ARE READY TO GO TO JAIL FOR THEIR CAUSE TONIGHT BUT I SHOULD BE THE PROTEST OUT IN THE STREET EARLIER. WE HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT ANY ACTION BEING TAKEN AGAINST THE PROTESTERS ON THE USC CAMPUS ON JEFFERSON BOULEVARD AND HOOVER. NOW YOU HAVE EVERYONE ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE PARK WAITING TO SEE HOW LAPD WILL CONDUCT THEMSELVES BUT THAT WAS A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION FOR OFFICERS THERE IS WATER BOTTLES WERE BEING THROWN PEOPLE WERE BEGINNING TO PUSH OFFICERS FROM BEHIND AND A VERY CHAOTIC SITUATION ALL WHILE BEING UNDER 10,000 DIFFERENT MICROSCOPES AT THE SAME TIME. >> WE TALKED ABOUT THIS EARLIER. WE TAKE A LOOK AT SCENES LIKE THIS IN THE PROTESTS WE HAVE SEEN THE PAST AND WE HAVE THIS ONE GROUP THAT WILL NOT CLEAR OUT AND LOCKING ARMS AND INTO DOING TO PROTEST. WE CAN ASSUME THAT THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE PROTESTING AND WE ASSUME THEY PLAN TO GO TO JAIL. >> ABSOLUTELY. AS I SAID EARLIER I DON'T THINK IT'S A CONTROVERSIAL THING TO SAY THAT SOME OF THESE PROTESTERS NOT ONLY ARE THEY WILLING TO DO IT BUT THEY WEAR AS A BADGE OF PRIDE. USUALLY ANYTIME YOU HAVE A PROTEST YOU'LL HAVE SEVERAL GROUPS OF PEOPLE SO PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE FOR THE MESSAGE AND THEY DRAW A LINE OF BEING ARRESTED AND THEY DON'T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING ON THEIR RECORD AND THERE ARE OTHERS THAT ARE WILLING TO TAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO BEING ARRESTED FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN. THAT IS THIS MOST ARDENT GROUP OF PROTESTERS IN THE MIDDLE. A LOT OF THEM ARE HOLDING SIGNS AND THEY ARE MOVING AND HAVE THEIR ARMS LOCKED HAND THERE ARE READY FOR IT ESSENTIALLY. WE'LL SEE HOW THEY BEHAVE WHEN LAPD DOES MOVE THEM AND BEGIN TO REST THEM BUT THEY HAVE NOT MADE ANY INDICATION THAT THEY ARE GOING ANYWHERE. >> "KCAL NEWS" AT 6 BREAKING NEWS OFFICERS MOVING INTO DISPERSE CROWDS AT USC TONIGHT AFTER THE PROTESTERS THERE AND THEY GAVE DISPERSAL ORDERS OF THE 5:00 HOUR. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT BUT SOME OF THE PROTESTERS LOOK LIKE MULTIPLE GROUPS ARE STILL ON CAMPUS RIGHT NOW AT LEIMERT PARK IN GROUPS AND STAYING THERE AND NOT HEEDING THE ORDERS OF LAPD OFFICERS. WE TALKED CHAUNCY ABOUT HOW SENSITIVE AND HAVE DELICATE THESE OPERATIONS CAN BE FOR LAPD OFFICERS. IN A RECENT CONVERSATION I HAD WITH THE CHIEF DOMINIC CHOI WITH LAPD HE TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE WANTS TO FOCUS ON TRAINING ESPECIALLY IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS WHERE THERE IS SO MUCH TENSION BUT OBVIOUSLY LAPD WANT TO GIVE PROTESTERS THEIR TIME IN AND THEIR RIGHT TO PROTEST. THIS IS THEIR RIGHT AND THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE THERE BUT AFTER A CERTAIN POINT IT IS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THOSE DISPERSAL ORDERS HAVE GONE OUT IT BECOMES ILLEGAL. >> WE'VE SEEN THIS PLAY OUT BEFORE IT ONLY TAKES THAT ONE SECOND THAT ONE WRONG MOVE BEFORE THIS THING TURNS VIOLENT OR TURNS INTO SOMETHING WE DON'T WANT TO SEE AND SOMETHING DANGEROUS. WE SAW SOME TENSE MOMENTS WHEN WE SAW PEOPLE THROWING WATER FOR SOME KIND OF LIQUID IN THAT DIRECTION ONTO POLICE OFFICERS THERE. WE KNOW THIS CAN GET OUT OF HAND IN A MATTER OF MINUTES OR A MATTER OF SECONDS EVEN. POLICE WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE STRATEGICALLY RESPONDING TO THIS RIGHT THERE ON THE MIDDLE OF CAMPUS AND LAMERK PARK AND A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE SHOWN UP FOR THIS. >> YOU CAN SEE WHY THEY CLOSE OFF THE CAMPUS. APPARENTLY THE GATES WERE SHUT DOWN OR CLOSE JUST BEFORE 2:00 THIS AFTERNOON ON CAMPUS BECAUSE OF THE FACT THERE WERE PEOPLE NOT JUST USC STUDENTS WITH OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS, PEOPLE COMING IN ON CAMPUS TO PROTEST. OBVIOUSLY THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE WHO ARE PROTESTING AREN'T CAMPUS AND ARE IN FACT USC STUDENTS AND CHECKING I.D.s AND NOT LETTING ANYONE AND AT THIS POINT. YOU CAN SEE WHY THEY WOULD DO THAT. P>> WE WANT TO GO BACK ON E GROUND TO TOM WAIT TO SEE WHAT HE IS SEEING AT HIS VANTAGE POINT. A FEW MINUTES AGO TOM LAPD OFFICERS MOVING CLOSER TO THE PROTESTERS. >> CHAUNCY AND SUZIE THE POLICE LINES ARE COLLAPSING GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE GROUP OF PROTESTERS IN THE CENTER. IF YOU TAKE A LOOK YOU CAN SEE THEY MOVE BACK AND FORMING AN ENTIRE LINE AROUND THE PROTESTERS. THE CONCERN THAT I HAVE RIGHT NOW FROM WATCHING THIS CROWD IS EVERY TIME THE POLICE MOVE THE CROWD MOVES CLOSER TO THEM. WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT WATCHING WHAT'S BEEN PLAYING OUT IS WHAT HAPPENS IF AND WHEN THE% POLICE TO MOVE AND TO MAKE ARRESTS IN THE CENTER THE PARK WITH SEVERAL DOZEN PROTESTERS AND HOW WILL THE CROWD REACT? WE SAW THE SKIRMISH POP UP A FEW MONTHS AGO WHERE IT LOOK LIKE POLICE WERE PERFORMING -- FORMING LINES AROUND THE AREA AND SOME REACTION TO THE CROWD AND THEY STARTED THROWING THINGS AT THE POLICE PRODUCE ALL LIQUIDS BEING THROWN AND PERHAPS THE FAY SHIELDS OF THE POLICE OFFICER STANDING HERE. THERE ARE A LOT OF ONLOOKERS AND IT'S UNCLEAR IF THEY ARE ON THE THAT WILL REACT TO WHATEVER IS GOING ON IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK WHEN POLICE MOVED IN. AS DESMOND AND LUZDELIA WERE TALKING ABOUT IT HAS A CHAOTIC FEELING AT TIMES WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE CHOPPER FLYING LOW THE LAPD CHOPPER AND THE NEWS CHOPPERS HIGHER BUT THE CHOPPER CIRCLING OVER AND OVER CREATES A TENSE SITUATION WHERE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. IT'S LIKE A HAIR TRIGGER A THING WHERE ONE TINY THING SETS OFF THE CROWD AS WE SAW A FEW MINUTES AGO. EVERYTHING SEEMED TO PAYMENT OFFICE AND YOU PEOPLE SCREAMING AND YELLING AND WE SAW A WOMAN BEING DETAINED. SOME CLEAR SHE WAS ARRESTED FOR RELEASE BUT WE SAW HER BEING TAKEN AWAY. IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. BASICALLY WE ARE WATCHING HOW THE POLICE LINE FORMS AND WILL THE OFFICERS GO IN AND MAKE ARRESTS? THERE'S A LINE FORMED SO THE CROWD DOESN'T APPEAR IS A BIG QUESTION. UNCLEAR WHETHER ANYONE ELSE BELIEVE BUT IT SEEMS STATIC IN TERMS OF HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE HERE RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE SURROUNDING THE AREA THAT AREN'T REALLY PROTESTING BUT LOOKING ON TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. IT'S UNCLEAR IF THEY WILL JOIN IN OR IF THEY WERE PROTESTING EARLIER. I JUST DON'T KNOW BUT EVERYONE IS WAITING AND WATCHING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WITH LAPD OFFICERS. THEY HAVE THEIR BATON SEVEN ZIP-TIE IS READY TO GO AND NONLETHAL WEAPONS. IT HAS THAT FEELING OF WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT AND WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO HANDY JUST HOPE THAT NOTHING EXPLODES. WE JUST DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY VIOLENCE AND WE DON'T WANT TO SEE NEW BUDDY HEARD ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS OBVIOUSLY. WE WANT TO SEE THIS PEACEFULLY AND WHICHEVER WAY THAT MAY BE. AGAIN THE LINES AROUND THE SMALL CROWD OF PROTESTERS, BUT CHANTING IS GETTING LOUDER SO IT'S UNCLEAR IF THE CROWD IS GETTING MORE TENSE WERE ANGRY OR WHAT BUT CERTAINLY A LOT OF PEOPLE STANDING AROUND WATCHING IN SOME KEEPING THEIR DISTANCE, SOME HOLDING BACK BUT A LOT GETTING CLOSE. NO ONE IS SCREAMING TO THAT FACES THE OFFICERS FROM MY VANTAGE POINT. I'VE SEEN THESE PROTEST BEFORE WHERE PEOPLE ARE SHOUTING EXPLETIVES AT THE OFFICERS BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM IT'S HAPPENED FROM WHERE I'M STANDING. WE SAW OFFICERS WERE ACTING IN A WAY THAT WAS ALARMIG. WAS IT SOMETHING THAT THE CROWD DID BUT NOW WE ARE SEEING OVER HERE SOMETHING HAPPENING OVER HERE. IT'S JUST ONE OF THESE SITUATIONS WHERE IT'S SO FLUID AND ONE LITTLE THING SETS PEOPLE OFF. A LOT OF PEOPLE STEP BACK SO WE HAVE TO HOPE THAT COOLER HEADS PREVAIL AND THE SITUATION WERE OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD. AT A CERTAIN POINT YOU JUST WONDER WHEN YOU ARE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY WHEN THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD. AND PLEASE HAVE TO COME IN AND MAKE ARRESTS. VERY QUIET IN THE CENTER AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE PEOPLE IN THE CENTER FROM MY VANTAGE POINT OR CHANTING STANDING THERE LOCKING ARMS. STANDING IN MIDDLE OF THE CIRCLE A MUCH SMALLER CIRCLE TO WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED ON THE SCENE. I DIDN'T TAKE AHEAD COUNT BUT YOU CAN HEAR PEOPLE CHANTING FREE PALESTINE. ALL OF THOSE WAITING TO SEE OUT PLAYS OUT FOR RIGHT NOW WE HOPE IT ALL ENDS PEACEFULLY IN THE COOLER PREVAIL. WE SEE THE SCENE ON SEVERAL COLLEGE CAMPUS ACROSS THE NATION HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON MET WITH JEWISH STUDENTS AT COLUMBIA GINEBRA CITY AFTER THEIR PROTEST AS HAS THE PRO PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE. SPEAKER JOHNSON CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT TO STEP DOWN. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN SEEING WITH STUDENTS FROM NYU AT TEXAS AND UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN AND COLUMBIA AND HERE ON THE CAMPUS OF USC. WANT TO GO TO LUZDELIA CABARELLO HE TALKED ABOUT ONE PERSON DETAINED BY POLICE. THEY ALSO SAW VIDEO WHEN ANOTHER PERSON WAS ARRESTED. >> IT LOOKS LIKE LUZDELIA IS GETTING INFORMATION. FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT IT'S VERY LOUD. WE ARE SEEING MORE THE SAME. BUT WE SEE A LOT OF PROTESTERS IN A CIRCLE TIED IN LOT ARMS. VERY QUIET IN TERMS OF PEOPLE CHANTING ON ART AND THAT THAT'S NOT THE CASE TOWARD THE NEIGHBORING BUILDING. CHANCE CAN STILL BE HEARD OVER ON THAT SIDE. HOW THEY END UP CLEARING THIS AREA THAT HAS BEEN WELL PAST THE INITIAL 10 MINUTES THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY USC GAVE PROTESTERS TO CLEAR THE AREA AND THE RESPONSES THAT WE HAVE SEEN PROTESTERS THROWING WATER AT OFFICERS WATER BOTTLES AND LIQUID AND THOSE OFFICERS RESPONDING AND INITIALLY THEY ASKED PEOPLE TO STAY BACK AND THEY TOOK ACTION AND THEY ACTUALLY DETAIN SOMEBODY. AS OF NOW IT'S ACTUALLY STARTING TO GET FAIRLY QUIET IN THIS AREA. THERE ARE MULTIPLE FACTIONS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW BUT ONE IS TAKING PLACE OUTSIDE THE CAMPUS IN EXPOSITION PARK. DESMOND SHAW IS LIVE IN SKYCAL. YOU WERE SHOWING US JEFFERSON AND HOOVER THIS IS THE SAME GROUP OF PROTESTERS? >> THESE ARE FOLKS INVOLVED IN A PROTEST EARLIER AND DECIDED TO MOVE AWAY AS LAPD CAME IN. IF THE SAME MESSAGE WE HAVE SEEN ON THE SIGNS. NOW THERE ARE TRAFFIC IMPLICATIONS. THIS IS THE BUSY INTERSECTION AND HOOVER ST. AT JEFFERSON AVENUE. WEST OF FIGUEROA AND THE 10 FREEWAY. OBVIOUSLY AS WE ARE IN EVENING RUSH HOUR THIS IS TYING THINGS UP AND IT LOOKS LIKE LAPD HAVE TRAFFIC CONTROL OUT HERE FOR PERHAPS THESE ARE USC OFFICIALS. THIS IS A SECONDARY PROTEST THAT IS TAKING PLACE WHICH WE KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE DEALING WITH PROTESTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET LAPD DOESN'T HAVE A TON OF PATIENCE SO WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE MAIN CONCERN WHETHER THEY WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE TO BREAK IT UP IN THE FIRST PLACE BUT VERY CLOSE TO THESE PROTESTERS NOW AND CLOSE RANKS AROUND THEM AND THERE ARE OTHER BACKS TURNED TO THE PROTESTERS. THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED JUST ABOUT EVERYONE A TURN AROUND THEY'VE BEEN PUSHED AND WATER BOTTLES BOTTLES THROWN AT THEM. WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE LAPD SURROUND THE PROTESTERS THAT REFUSE TO MOVE FROM ALUMNI PART. LAPD IS NOT MOVED IN TO ARREST ANYONE THAT WE HAVE SEEN ANYWAY. ONCE THIS CONCLUDES ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE TO ADDRESS THE PROTEST TAKING PLACE TO THE NORTH OF THE JEFFERSON. THIS GETS TRICKY FOR POLICE WHEN THEY HAVE MORE THAN ONE SCENE AND NOW IT SEEMS LIKE THE INTERSECTION IS A COMPLETELY BLOCKED OFF WITH PROTESTERS? >> IT'S PRETTY BLOCKED OFF IN A SEEN A COUPLE OF OFFICERS GET THROUGH RIGHT OFF THE NORTHERN INTEREST TO USC NEAR THE MAIN GATE WHERE WE WERE SEEING SAFETY PERSONNEL CHECKING FOR EVERYONE BEFORE THEY WERE ABLE TO GET INTO THE CAMPUS. IF THESE ARE STUDENTS WHO COULD BE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND THERE'VE BEEN A LOT OF CALLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISTS FOR CALLING PEOPLE TO COME DOWN AND JOIN IN. IT COULD BE AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE THING OR MAYBE A COMBINATION OF STUDENTS AND ANGELENOS THAT HAVE COME OUT TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS ON THIS ENTIRE SITUATION. AND FOLKS BUILT TRYING TO COME TO JEFFERSON TO COME THROUGH PERHAPS TO THE CULVER CITY THAT ARE NOW BEING TURNED AROUND ON FIGUEROA TO GET AROUND USAID TO THE SOUTH SIDE. >> THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO REMIND HER VIEWERS YOU ARE WATCHING "KCAL NEWS" AT 6 AND THIS IS BREAKING NEWS AS THIS OFFICERS HAVE MOVED IN TO DISPERSE THE CROWDS. A USA ON AND OFF CAMPUS TONIGHT. HE SEEMED TO DETENTIONS IF YOU WILL OF PEOPLE DETAINED EARLIER TODAY. ONE PERSON WAS DETAINED AND PUT IN A PATROL VEHICLE AND PROTESTERS SURROUNDED THE CAR AND STARTED HANGING ON THE PATROL CAR. THAT PERSON WAS RELEASED SHORTLY THEREAFTER. IT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER PERSON I BELIEVE THIS IS THE THIRD PERSON WE ARE WATCHING THE DETAINED TODAY. THE ENCAMPENTS WERE TAKEN DOWN BY PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS ON CAMPUS. TWO MORE PEOPLE AS WE ARE SEEING NOW AND A WOMAN DETAINED EARLIER WENT BOTTLES AND LIQUID ARE BEING THROWN AT OFFICERS. IT WAS UNCLEAR IF THEY WERE PROTESTERS OR PEOPLE THERE TO HIS SUPPORT OF PROTESTERS ARE NOW SEEING MORE ARRESTS. SPIRIT WE ARE DEALING WITH TWO DIFFERENT SCENES ONE ON CAMPUS AND ONE OUTSIDE OF CAMPUS BY EXPOSITION PARK WHERE PROTESTERS HAVE THE INTERSECTION BLOCKED OFF. WE ARE WAITING TO SEE WHAT PROTESTERS WHO HAVE THE INTERSECTION BLOCKED OFF WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS BUT THE YOUNG LADY BEING DETAINED BY POLICE. IT LOOKS LIKE POLICE ARE STEPPING IT UP FOR THIS IS GONE ON FOR WHILE. WE ARE GOING TO SWITCH OVER TO THE "CBS EVENING NEWS" WITH NORAH O'DONNELL COMING UP NEXT BUT WE WANT TO CONTINUE WATCHING OUR COVERAGE ON KCAL CHANNEL 9. WE'LL SEE YOU THERE FOR THE LATEST WE NOW HAVE GONE 30 MINUTES PAST THAT AND THEY ARE TRYING TO GET THESE PEOPLE AWAY FROM ALUMNI PART ON THE CAMPUS CVOC. AND YOUR EXPOSITION PARK WHERE PROTESTERS HAVE BLOCKED THE STREETS. WANT TO GO LIVE DISC OUT OF DESMOND SHAW FOR THE LATEST. LAPD IS SET UP A STATION TO PROCESS PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE ARRESTING. THEY ARE TRICKLING PEOPLE OUT ONE BY ONE. THEY ARE BEING PUT INTO ZIP TIES HANDCUFFS THEY ARE. YOU CAN SEE US AS HE WAS SAYING SIX OR SEVEN PEOPLE BEGINNING TO TRICKLE IN ONE BY ONE. HERE'S ANOTHER ONE BEING LED IN. INSTEAD OF GOING EN MASSE AND ARRESTING EVERYONE THE SAME TIME IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE PICKING THEM OFF ONE BY ONE. WE HAVEN'T SEEN ANY RESISTANCE. ALL THE RESISTANCE HAS BEEN ON THE PERIPHERY WE HAVE SEEN AS LAPD WAS TRYING TO SEAL OFF THE NORTHSIDE OF ALUMNI PART. THAT WAS WHERE WE SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE GET INVOLVED THROWING WATER BOTTLES SHOVING OFFICERS IN GETTING IN THEIR FACES. AS OFFICERS REPORTED PUSHING THEM BACK WITH THEIR BATONS LAPD COULD HAVE LOST CONTROL OF THE SITUATION. FRANKLY IT SEEMED LIKE THEY RESPONDED IN A MEASURED MANNER AND NOW ONE BY ONE IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY ARE VOLUNTEERING LIKE WHO'S NEXT AND EVERYONE IS READY FOR IT. WE KNEW THAT AND THESE PEOPLE MADE IT CLEAR THEY AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE THEY WILL TAKE THIS TO THE VERY END AND SO NOW ONE BY ONE THEY ARE BEING PUT IN HANDCUFFS AND BEING LED OVER TO WHERE THEY ARE BEING PROCESSED. >> FOLKS WHO ARE OPPOSED TESTING ON THE CAMPUS AS DOES MOST TALKING ABOUT THEY OBVIOUSLY KNOW AFTER THE DISPERSAL ORDERS WENT OUT ANYTHING AFTER THAT TIME THEY ARE DISOBEYING THE LAW. THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND THEY ARE THERE FOR A PURPOSE AND EXERCISING THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO GATHER AND TO PROTEST AND OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE PROTESTING WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW. THIS PROTEST STARTED THIS MORNING WITH THE ENCAMPMENT SET UP ON ALUMNI PARK WITH TENTS AND SHOWING US TALKING ABOUT FOOD. AND PLANNED TO STAY FOR NICKS BENDED PERIOD OF TIME TO PROTEST. THEY ARE SAYING THESE TENTS HAVE GOT TO GO AND THAT'S WHEN THE FIRST SKIRMISH BEGAN AND ONE MAN WAS DETAINED AFTER THAT HAPPENED. SHORTLY THEREAFTER THERE WAS A PATROL CAR THAT THE MAN WAS AN IMPROVED TEST ARE SURROUNDED THAT CAR AND BANGED ON THE DOORS UNTIL THAT PERSON WAS LET OUT. LET'S GO DOWNSTAIRS TO LUZDELIA CABALLERO ON THE GROUND AND SHE JOINS US LIVE. >> WE ARE SEEING THESE PROTESTERS IN THE CENTER OF ALUMNI PARK SEEMINGLY GETTING TAKEN AWAY ONE BY ONE. THIS IS SOMETHING WE ANTICIPATE WILL HAPPEN UNTIL EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE AREA IS ARRESTED ULTIMATELY. SO FAR SEEMINGLY PEACEFUL AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE CROWD ULTIMATELY ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE PARK. THE CHANTING IS NOT AS LOUD AS BEFORE BUT THE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE PROTESTERS IN THE MIDDLE STARTING TO SEE THEY ARE STARTING TO CHANT AND THEY ARE STARTING TO REALIZE EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING ON AND ULTIMATELY WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO FACE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MINUTES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WILL LIKELY BE ARRESTED AND TAKEN OUT AT THE CENTER OF ALUMNI PARK. AS FAR AS FOLKS ON THE OUTSKIRTS YOU CAN SEE THE OFFICERS OFFICERS ARE COMPLETELY STARTING THE PERIMETER. COMPARED TO A HERD EVEN AN HOUR AGO BUT A COUPLE HOURS AGO. JUST TO RECAP AS ALWAYS SEEING THROUGHOUT THE DAY. MANY ARE FROM THE BEGINNING. A PEACEFUL PROTEST. PEOPLE WERE PUTTING DOWN BLANKETS AND SETTING UP THEIR TENTS. THEY WERE SHARING SOME STORIES. PERSONAL ENCOUNTERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT. IN PALESTINE OR THEIR FAMILY PRETTY SOON A LAW ENFORCEMENT WE WERE MUCH LOUDER. PUBLIC SAFETY SAID TO THE MEGAPHONE ON THEIR PATROL CAR WAS DROWNED OUT. TO DISPERSE TO LEAVE. RECENTLY LEARNED AGAINST SCHOOL RULES TO SET UP TENTS BE HERE AT CERTAIN TIMES DISRUPTING CLASSES. OFFICERS CAME IN AT HEIGHTENED EMOTIONS. THINGS BECAME VERY TENSE BETWEEN OFFICERS AND PROTESTERS. THEY WERE THERE IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE PROTESTERS SHE WAS ARRESTED AND PUT INTO THE PATROL CAR. AULT MOVED TO THE PATROL CAR SURROUNDING A COMPLETELY ENFORCING LAW ENFORCEMENT TO MAKE THIS DECISION AND STOP THE CHANCE AND THE TENSION AND THE CLASHING BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND OFFICERS. THEY ULTIMATELY DECIDED TO RELEASE THE PROTESTERS. WE ARE NOT TALKING HUNDREDS THAT'S WELL OVER 1000 OF PROTESTERS WENT TO ALUMNAE PARKER. SEVERAL HOURS LATER JUST A LITTLE OVER 30 MINUTES AGO. HERE ON CAMPUS LET PROTESTERS KNOW THEY HAD 10 MINUTES TO CLEAR THE AREA. THEY HAVE NOT DONE THAT. NOW WE ARE HERE WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE MOST OF THE ONLOOKERS ARE BEHIND THE POLICE LINE. THOSE PARTICIPATING ARE SURROUNDING A NEIGHBORING BUILDING. WE HAVE A GROUP IN FRONT OF US THAT HAS BEEN WITH THEIR ARMS LOCKED THIS COULD BE THE SAME GROUP WILL BE IN FRONT OF THE LETTER SIGN BY ALUMNAE PARK THAT SAID LET GAZA LIVE IT SEEMS LIKE THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON. THEY SEE OTHER PROTESTERS WALKING UP TO LAW ENFORCEMENT VOLUNTARILY AS YOU SEE HERE. THEY ARE APPREHENDED AND TAKEN AWAY. CLEARLY THEY KNOW IT IS WHAT ISG ON AND THEY ARE WILLING TO GET TAKEN AWAY. GO INTO CUSTODY AND IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE NOT RESISTING AT ALL. BUT CERTAINLY FOR A BECAUSE THEY FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THAT THEY FEEL PASSIONATE ABOUT IT. VERY CORDIALLY, VERY CALMLY. PROTESTERS ARE RECIPROCATING THAT SAME ENERGY. THEY 20 OR 30 MINUTES GOES HOW PUSHING AND SHOVING THAT CLOSE TO OFFICERS A MUCH DIFFERENT SITUATION. IT HAS BEEN TOUCH AND GO THROUGHOUT THE DAY WHEN OFFICERS APPROACHED PROTESTERS DEPENDING ON THE INITIAL APPROACH, THE DEMEANOR IT SEEMS LIKE THE ENERGY CAN LEAD TO A MUCH DIFFERENT OUTCOME. WHEN A WATER BOTTLE WAS INITIALLY THROWN WE HAD THE SECOND ARREST THAT WE SAW DURING THE DAY FOLKS ARE CHANTING AND THEY ARE MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. BUT HERE IN THE MIDDLE THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. THE POINT IS THEY ARE HERE TO LET THEIR VOICES BE HEARD. THE PUSHING FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. PEACE IN GAZA. PEACE IN ISRAEL BY THEIR WILLING TO BE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY SENDING THAT MESSAGE OUT. THERE IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN THREE MEN WHO ARE LOCKED IN ARMS. WE HAVE SEEN SEVERAL FLAGS ACROSS THE AREA. THEY ARE BEING HELD HIGH AND WAWAVE PROUDLY. AGAIN THE PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE KNOW IF THEIR FATE IS SPRAYED .THEY KNOW THEY ARE ULTIMATELY GOING TO NEED TAKEN AWAY IN AN EFFORT THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IS TRYING TO CLEAR THIS AREA. SO AT THIS TIME IT IS PEACEFUL ONCE AGAIN. BUT THAT CAN CHANGE AS WE HAVE SEEN THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE DAY. DEPENDING ON ONE ACTION OF ONE INDIVIDUAL. AS OF NOW AGAIN ON THE GROUND AT ALUMNAE PARK SEEMINGLY PEACEFUL. FOLKS IN THE MIDDLE HERE IS THERE LOCKED IN ARMS THEY ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY ONE BY ONE. THEY MAY BE CHANTING THEY ARE DEFINITELY ABIDING BY WHATEVER THE OFFICERS ARE TELLING THEM. THEY ARE STARTING TO LEAVE THE CIRCLE ONE BY ONE AND BEING TAKEN AWAY. >> WE ARE SEEING MORE AND MORE PROTESTERS BEING TAKEN AWAY BY POLICE EARLIER DESMOND SHOWED US THAT PICTURE OF POLICE ESCORTING THOSE OF PROTESTERS AFTER THEY HAD BEEN DETAINED TO AN AREA OUTSIDE OF THIS PARK RIGHT HERE. WHAT BACK UP WITH DESMOND. HE HAD A SHOT UP EARLIER WERE PROTESTERS WERE FACE-TO-FACE WITH POLICE. >> YES, ABSOLUTELY. I WANT TO JUXTAPOSE THE TWO GROUPS OF PROTESTERS. PERHAPS THESE ARE THE ONLY REAL PROTESTERS AT THIS POINT THE ONES HAVE DECIDED THEY'R WILLING TO BE DETAINED FOR THEIR BELIEFS. THEY ARE NOT RESISTING AT ALL BUT FRANKLY THEY ALMOST SEEM TO BE VOLUNTARILY GOING ONE BY ONE. THERE YOU GO THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE THEY PUT THEIR HANDS UP. THEY PUT THEIR HAND BEHIND THEIR BACK AND H HAT ZIP TIE HANDCUFFS TO PUT ON THEM AND THEY WALK AWAY. THE CONCERN TO SPEND THIS GROUP ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PERIMETER. THESE ARE A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WE SAW EARLIER. GETTING AN LAPD FACES THIS IS WHERE THE WATER BOTTLES WERE THROWN LAPD WAS JUST TRYING TO ISOLATE THE GROUP OF PROTESTERS IN THE MIDDLE AND GET OTHER PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY. IT IS STILL PRETTY TENSE HERE JUST A COUPLE MOMENTS AGO IS OUT RIGHT HERE SOMEONE GETTING IN THEIR FACE. LAPD YANKED THEIR FLIGHT AWAY FROM THEM IT ALMOST APPEARED LIKE THEY'RE TRYING TO USE THAT AS A WEAPON AGAINST AN OFFICER BUT THAT IS WHAT I SAW. THAT YANKED IT AWAY AND THREW IT BEHIND THEM. SO, THIS IS WHERE THE MOST INTENSE SITUATION IS RIGHT NOW THE PROTEST EARLIER BUT DECIDED THEY DID NOT WANT TO BE ARRESTED OR THESE ARE JUST OTHER STUDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN WATCHING EVERYTHING GOING ON. IT'S NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR. THAT IS THE MOST INTENSE THING GOING ON RIGHT NOW. LET'S GET AN UPDATE ON THE OTHER SITUATION. THE SECONDARY PROTEST HAPPENING AT JEFFERSON AND HOOVER WITH THE STATUS IS OF THAT. STILL CONTINUING HERE. HERE THEY ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INTERSECTION AS A ZOOM IN. A LOT OF THE SAME BANNERS WE SAW EARLIER THESE SIGNS WE SAW PERHAPS THREE OR 400 PEOPLE SOME OF THEM HAVE MOVED OVER HERE. THIS COULD ALSO BE THE GENERAL POPULACE OUT HERE THERE'S A LOT OF CALLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE TO COME AND JOIN A LOT OF ACTIVISM GROUPS WE SAW A LOT OF THAT EARLIER ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THIS IS AFFECTING THE GENERAL PUBLIC RIGHT NOW. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO GET AROUND EXPOSITION PARK SOUTH L.A., SOUTH PARK, JEFFERSON YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO REALLY DO THAT RIGHT NOW. ONLY A COUPLE OF VEHICLES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET AROUND. I'VE NOT SEEN ANY VEHICLES THROUGH JEFFERSON AND ORDINARY TRAFFIC HERE THEY HAVE TO BE TURNED BACK AROUND. THE PROTESTERS IN THE CENTER THAT HAVE DECIDED THEY WILL STAY HERE UNTIL THE END, THEN WE WILL MOVE BACK OVER TOO THAT SHORTLY. THEY HAPPILY COME UP FRANKLY BE GOING TO JAIL TONIGHT. IT'S THE FOLKS ON THE OUTSIDE THAT COULD STILL POTENTIALLY CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR LAPD. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. AS A DESMOND SHOWS IS THIS SHOT BACK ON CAMPUS WAS JOIN TOM HE WAS THERE ON THE GROUND WITH AN UPDATE FOR US. THANKS RIGHT NOW WE ARE JUST A WATCHING IS THAT WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PROTESTERS BEING ARRESTED ONE BY ONE. KIND OF FROM THE FOR EDGE OF THE GROUNDING SEE ONE UNFOLDING RIGHT NOW IN FRONT OF US. PEOPLE ARE BEING LED AWAY. NO SKIRMISHES THERE AS A POLICE HAVE GONE UP ONE BY ONE TO LEAD SOMEONE AWAY. THEY HAVE GONE VERY PEACEFULLY. EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE WATCHING WHAT'S HAPPENING BUT IT'S ONLY HAPPENING FROM ONE END AS WE WERE PORTING US FROM GOING A ONE. LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE PUTTING THEM IN ZIP TIES AND LEADING THEM AWAY. THE CROWD IS SUPER PEACEFUL. EVERYONE IS A CHANTING AND JUST KIND OF WATCHING WHAT IS UNFOLDING HERE. OBVIOUSLY THESE FOLKS MAKING THEIR LAST STAND CUSTODY. YOU CAN SEE IT'S DONE VERY ORDERLY THERE. THERE IS COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LAPD OFFICERS OF THE PROTESTERS FROM WHAT WE CAN SEE. I AM JUST WATCHING WHAT LOOKS LIKE VERBAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE OFFICERS AND THOSE BEING ARRESTED. DO NOT SEE ANY RESISTANCE. IT HAS BEEN VERY PEACEFUL. EVEN ON THE LINE WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IT DOES APPEAR THE OFFICERS ARE TALKING WITH THE PEOPLE STANDING HERE. I SEE ANOTHER MAN BEING LED AWAY THERE. HE'S BEING LET OUT OF THE CROWD. SO, FOR SOME PEOPLE IT'S AN EMOTIONAL SCENE TO CS PEOPLE GET TAKEN AWAY FOR THERE YOU HAVE IT. AT THIS POINT RIGHT NOW WE ARE JUST KIND OF WATCHING THE SCENE PLAY OUT. AS DESMOND SAID THE POLICE ARE HERE BECAUSE THEY JUST DO NOT KNOW IF A VOLATILE SITUATION COULD INVOLVE. IF SOMETHING HAPPENS IT SETS SOMEONE OFF SO THEY ARE TRYING TO KEEP EVERYTHING PEACEFUL WHICH SO FAR IT HAS BEEN VERY PEACEFUL AT LEAST THE LAST HOUR OR SO. OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A SKIRMISH EARLIER IT WERE WATER BOTTLES WERE BEING THROWN AND WATER WAS THROWN AS WELL. BUT RIGHT NOW NONE OF THAT IS HAPPENING FOR THIS CHANTING GOING ON THIS PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT TALKING TO EACH OTHER. IT DOES SEEM METHODICALLY THE PARK'S BEEN CLEARED OUT. SO FAR WE HAVE NOT SEEN ANY MAJOR INJURIES OR MAJOR RESISTANCE AS THIS PLAYS OUT IN THE PARK. IT IS INTERESTING THERE ARE A LOT OF ONLOOKERS. I THINK IT'S STARTING TO THIN A LITTLE BIT AS THE HOURS HAVE GONE ON. IT IS NOT AS CROWDED. BUT HONESTLY SOME OF IT SEEMS LIKE A SOCIAL OPPORTUNITY. THERE WE GO, THERE IS SOME CHANTING. LET THEM GO. LET THEM GO. LET THEM GO. LET THEM GO. LET THEM GO. LET THEM GO. QUICK SO YOU HAVE IT GUYS. WE HAVE A LOT OF CHANTING GOING ON. THE ASSEMBLY IS NOT OVER YET PEOPLE ARE STANDING AROUND AND STICKING AROUND TO WITNESS THESE ARRESTS UNDER IN OUR CHANTING D MAKING THE FEELINGS HEARD. >> LET THEM GO. >> WILL GO BACK TO DESMOND, YET WE KNOW HE HAD TO LEAVE US HERE IN A FEW MINUTES WE WENT TO GO BACK UP TO YOU MORE AND MORE PROTESTERS ARE BEING ARRESTED AND DETAINED BY POLICE AT ONE BY ONE AND TAKEN TO THE AREA YOU SHOWED US EARLIER. RANKS ARE DEAFLY CLOSING HERE DG YOUR MAY HAVE ARRESTED HAVE TO CLOSE CLOSE TO HALF OF THE PROTESTERS YOU CANNOT SEE IT NOW, DO WOULD TEMPT MEN SHE IS KIND OF INTERESTING MI PILOT MIKE POINTED OUT TO BE EARLIER YOU MIGHT'VE SEEN A BUNCH OF MILK JUGS IN THE CENTER EVERYONE WAS IN A CIRCLE BUT WE DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WAS FOR NUTRITION AREA PURPOSES THEY PROBABLY HAD THAT IN THE EVENT THERE THING OK LAPD OR TO USE TEAR GAS THAT SOMETHING YOU CAN DOUSE YOUR EYES WITH THE MILK TO BASICALLY DISPEL THE EFFECTS OF TEAR GAS IT'S WORTH NOTING LAPD NOT USING TEAR GAS IN THE SITUATION BUT IN FACT TO MY KNOWLEDGE I CANNOT REMEMBER NOT TO EVERETT SEEING THEM USE TEAR GAS SINCE THE PROTESTS OF 2020. THINGS HAVE CHANGED DRAMATICALLY SINCE THEN. THE WEIGHT WE'VE BEEN SEEING LAPD BEHAVED TODAY, ESPECIALLY UNDER THE INTENSE SCRUTINY OF CELL PHONE CAMERAS AND FROM THE SKY AS WELL THEY HAVE HANDLED THIS VERY PROFESSIONALLY. THEY HAD PROTESTERS IN THEIR FACE. THEY'VE BEEN SHOVED FROM BEHIND. THEY HAD WATER BOTTLES THROWN AT THEM PERHAPS OTHER OBJECTS AS WELL. WE SAW SOMEONE SHOVING THE BLUNT END OF A FLAG AT THEM EARLIER. THEY HAVE THE SITUATION COMPLETELY UNDER CONTROL AT THIS POINT. THERE IS A LOT OF FEAR ABOUT THINGS REALLY SPIRALING HERE. AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT THAT IS NOT THE CASE IT'S A VERY, VERY DELICATE OPERATION THERE STILL MAY BE MORE FOR THEM TO DO BECAUSE THE APPROACH IS TAKING PLACE ON JEFFERSON AND HOOVER. WE'LL SEE IF THEY WILL BE SOMEONE TO RESPOND TO THAT AS WELL BECAUSE THE THERE ILLEGALLO MY KNOWLEDGE ANYWAY ILLEGALLY BLOCKING A STREET OUT THERE IF THEY HAD A PERMIT WE KNOW LAPD DOES NOT HAVE A LOT OF PATIENCE FOR PROTESTERS BLOCKING PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES LIKE THAT OUT. ALL WHITE OUT TO GIVE YOU THE BIG SHAKES THE LAPD HELICOPTER STILL MONITORING THINGS FROM THE AIR. THEY HAVE EVERYTHING COVERED PRETTY WELL HERE. THIS IS WHERE THEY ARE PROCESSING FOLKS. GETTING THEIR INFORMATION AND PUTTING THEM IN THE BACK OF VAN'S WORK THEY'LL BE HEADED DOWNTOWN AFTER THEY ARE PROCESSED. QUICK SITE DESMOND WE ARE GOING TO LET YOU GO FUEL UP ON SOME FUEL AND COME BACK TO THE PROTESTER. AS WE CONTINUE THIS COVERAGE OF THE PROTEST AT USC, IT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT EARLIER TODAY LAPD PUT OUT A CITYWIDE TACTICAL ALERTS FOR THIS EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON IN ANTICIPATION OF THE PROTEST TODAY ON CAMPUS AT USC. CLEARLY THEY KNOW THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN TODAY. THEY WERE CLEARLY READY FOR THEY SENT OUT OFFICERS WERE THEY NEEDED TO. AS DESMOND WAS ALLUDING TO THE INCREDIBLE CALL AND WAYS THEY ARE CHOOSING TO HANDLE THIS. WE HAVE SEEN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS IN THE PAST AS WE KNOW FROM THE SUMMER OF PROTEST AFTER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD DURING THE HEIGHT OF COVID WE SAW VERY DIFFERENT SITUATION. LAPD INTERIM CHIEF TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT OFFICERS TRAINING IS SO IMPORTANT IN CASES LIKE THIS. THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS HE WANTS TO DO DURING HIS TENURE AS INTERIM CHIEF IS MAKE SURE THE OFFICERS ARE TRAINED SPECIFICALLY FOR TENSE SITUATIONS LIKE THIS ONE TODAY. >> WE KNOW STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING THESE SCENES RIGHT HERE ARE PLAYING OUT ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES. SEEMS LIKE THE CENTRALIZED MESSAGE HERE STUDENTS ARE DEMANDING THEIR SCHOOLS CUT INVESTMENT SUPPORTING ISRAEL. A LOT OF STUDENTS ARE STANDING UP AND PROTESTING. YOU ARE SEEING AND DEMONSTRATIONS LIKE THIS PLAY OUT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES ALL ACROSS THE U.S. WHEN YOU WANT TO GO BACK DOWN ON THE SCENE ON THE GROUND WHEN SHE HAS BEEN THERE FOR THE LAST FEW HOURS. I'M INTERESTED KNOW, YOU'VE BEEN OUT THERE FOR A FEW HOURS. WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PROTESTERS AND THE STUDENTS WERE THEY TELLING YOU? I KNOW EARLIER WE TALKED ABOUT THE VALEDICTORIAN THERE AND HER COMMENCEMENT SPEECH BEING ASKED ARE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THAT ON THE GROUND THERE? >> YOU KNOW, INITIALLY WHEN WE GOT HERE YES. MANY STUDENTS AND EVEN COMMUNITY MEMBERS STILL COMPLETELY OUTRAGEOUS SHE WAS NEXT OF HER OPPORTUNITY THEY SAID WAS A VERY WELL-DESERVED OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE THAT SPEECH. I DO IT TO REMIND EVERYONE SHE DOES HAVE A MINOR RESISTANCE OR GENOTOGENOCIDE LOT OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS WE SPOKE TO SAID SHEET WENT TO THIS UNIVERSITY. SHE LEARNED ON CAMPUS WITH A FACULTY HERE. WHEN SHE IS APPLYING WHAT SHE LEARNED SHE ISN'T STRIPPED OF HER RIGHT TO GIVE A SPEECH. THE ONE THAT COMMUNITY AND PROTESTERS ALIKE BELIEVE SHE DEFINITELY EARNED HENNER OWN RIGHT. AND NOW YOU HEAR LESS OF THAT AND MORE OF WE ARE GOING TO STAY HERE AND MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD. ULTIMATELY WHAT WE ARE SEEING AN OUT WITH LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICERS TAKING PROTESTERS A ONE BY ONE IN THE MIDDLE IS THEIR MESSAGE IS NOW WE WILL STAND FOR WHAT WE BELIEVE IN BUT EVEN IF THAT MEANS GETTING DETAINS EVEN IF THAT MEANS GETTING ARRESTED POTENTIALLY BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM THE SPACE. AND AS FAR AS WE SEE IT'S A VERY PEACEFUL PROCESS OFFICERS APPROACHED THE PROTESTERS HERE IN THE MIDDLE AND END MANY CASES LIKE WE'VE SEEN THE LAST COUPLE OF PEOPLE COMING OUT OF THE CIRCLE THEY WILLINGLY ON LINKED ARMS AND ALLOW OFFICERS TO DO THEIR JOB AND TAKE THEM AWAY. THE MESSAGES WE HAVE BEEN HEARING THROUGHOUT THE DAY FROM THOSE WHO ARE A PART OF THE SAPPORO PALESTINIAN PROTESTER AND EVEN THOSE WHO ARE ALLIES HAVE BEEN SAYING THEY JUST WANT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. WE SPOKE TO A STUDENT WHO IS A PART OF HOW LOW HERE ON CAMPUS WHICH IS A JEWISH GROUP HERE ON CAMPUS. SHE SAYS HEY, I DO NOT KNOW IF THAT VALEDICTORIAN WOULD HAVE SAID BUT I DO BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH I DON'T BELIEVE IN HATE SPEECH BUT SHE SAID I DO BELIEVE IN FREE SPEECH AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS POTENTIALLY UNFAIR. WHAT SHE TOLD ME IS IT WAS A WELL-DESERVED, WELL-EARNED RIGHTS THAT WAS STRIPPED FROM HER. WE ARE SEEING A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING TOGETHER HERE AND SYMPATHIZING WITH THE CAUSE. MAKING THEMSELVES ALLIES TO PEOPLE HERE BEING ABLE TO BE HERDED. DIVEST SIX DEMANDS OF THE UNIVERSITY. SOME INCLUDED ENDING WAR, PROFITEERING AND GENOCIDE AND ALSO PRESENTING FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS. THIS IS SOMETHING WE ARE SEEING PLAY OUT IN REAL TIME WHERE SOME STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS FEEL LIKE POTENTIALLY BEING TAKEN OFF OF THIS PROPERTY AND THIS PARK IS AN APP VIOLATING THEIR FREEDOM OF SPEECH. THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY WOULD BEEN REPORTING ON THIS YOU'VE GOT TO LEAVE THIS AREA. IT IS PRIVATE PROPERTY WE ARE GOING TO TAKE ACTION IF YOU DON'T. IT IS THE RIGHT TO BE HERE IT'S THE RIGHT TO BE HEARD. AND CONTINUE SPREADING THAT MESSAGE AND ULTIMATELY THE TWO POINTS THAT HAVE BEEN HAMMERED TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND TODAY ARE THOSE TWO POINTS. THEY ONC WANT USC TO END WAR PROFITEERING AND GENOCIDE. ALSO TO PROTECT STUDENT COMMUNITY MEMBERS RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH ON CAMPUS. YOU CAN SEE THE CENTER YOU HAVE A COUPLE PEOPLE SETTING, VERY FEW LEFT STANDING. NOW THE CROWD IS CHANTING LET THEM GO FOR THEM GOING TO STOP TALKING SO MAYBE YOU CAN PICK UP ON THIS. >> LET THEM GO. LET THEM GO. >> THE REALITY IS THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE LET GO. I THINK THIS IS A BIGGER PART OF LAPD EFFORT TO CLEAR THIS AREA. HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES. THE PROTEST STARTED MORE THAN NINE HOURS AGO AND IT IS STILL GOING STRONG AT THIS TIME. IT IS PEACEFUL BUT THE LAPD HAS TO TAKE THESE MEASURES IN ORDER TO CLEAR THIS AREA OUT. AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR SOME I BELIEVE THEY FEEL THEY SHOULD BE HERE. BUT THEY ARE GOING TO BE REMOVED AT THIS TIME IT SEEMS LIKE IT IS PEACEFUL. IT IS CORDIAL AND FOR MY PERSPECTIVE THE OFFICERS THAT ARE REMOVING THESE PROTESTERS ARE DOING SO IN A MANNER THAT COMES FROM AN APPROACH OF DE-ESCALATION AT THIS TIME. AT THIS TIME IT IS PEACEFUL. THERE WAS SOME PUSHING AND SHOVING AND WATER BOTTLES THROWN AT OFFICERS. AT THIS TIME THERE IS NONE OF THAT PEOPLE ARE CHANTING AND REALLY WHEN THE STUDENTS TO BE RELRELEASE WHICH STATE MAY VERY WELL BE LATER ON. I DO NOT SEE THAT FOR CAP A BIT UNTIL THIS IS CLEARED OUT THAT MIGHT NOT HAPPEN FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND JUST BEHIND THE SHOT IS WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT FROM THE SKY FROM ABOVE IS THE CIRCLE THAT KEEPS GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER AS A POLICE OFFICERS THAT MOVE IN AND MAKE ARRESTS ONE BY ONE DETAINING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THIS PROTEST AFTER DISPERSAL ORDERS WENT OUT ALMOST TWO HOURS AGO NOW ON THE CAMPUS OF USC. THE CIRCLE WE WERE LOOKING AT THE GOT SMALLER AND SMALLE I WAS JUST NOTICING BEFORE I BELIEVE THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE% A PEACE SIGN TO ENCOURAGE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST OBVIOUSLY THAT IS BEEN THE THEME OF THESE PROTESTS. AS WE TAKE A LIVE LOOK WERE JOINED BY JUAN FERNANDEZ ALONGSIDE JUAN GOOD EVENING TO YOU. WERE FOLLOWING BREAKING NEWS NOW IN THE SECOND HOUR OF OUR BREAKING NEWS AT USC. ALUMNI PARK TAKEN OVER TODAY BY PROTESTERS. THE CAMPUS SHUT DOWN EVEN EARLIER TODAY SO NO MORE PROTESTERS COULD COME ONTO CAMPUS SO FAR WE HAVE SEEN DOZENS OF ARRESTS MADE SO FAR FOR QUICKSET IS RIGHT. FOR MOST OF THE DAY WE'VE BEEN OUT THERE THINGS HAVE BEEN RATHER PEACEFUL THERE WAS SOME TENSIONS EARLIER IN THE EVENING I BELIEVE OFFICERS WANTED THE PROTESTERS TO REMOVE SOME OF THE TENTS THEY HAD SET UP AS THEY WERE SETTING UP AN ENCAMPMENT THERE ON CAMPUS AS A SIGN OF PROTEST IT WAS RIGHT AROUND THE 6:00 P.M. HOUR WHEN SOME BOTTLES WERE THROWN. IRAQ WAS THROWN AND THAT'S WHEN YOU SAW THINGS START TO GET HEATED OUT. AS YOU MENTIONED THAT CIRCLE GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER. PEOPLE WILLINGLY BEING ARRESTED TO PROVE A POINT THEY ARE VERY UPSET THE SITUATION HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN A PALACE THAT YOU SEE WHAT OTHER PROTESTER PUTTING HIS HANDS UP BEHIND HIS BACK. AND SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING THE DEMANDS FROM THE PROTESTERS NOT A LOT YOU KEEP READING AND KEEP SEEING ON SOCIAL MEDIA WHAT THEY WANT IS FOR THE SCHOOL TO CUT TIES WITH ANY COMPANIES, ANY ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT ISRAEL. IT IS INTERESTING A UNIVERSE THAT USC HAS SO MANY IMPORTANT DONORS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE JEWISH YOU HAVE VERY STRONG SUPPORT OF ISRAEL. IT'S A REALLY DELICATE SITUATION. IT'S A VERY DELICATE SUBJECT TO DEAL WITH THEM AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT COULD HAPPEN HERE IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME TOO. >> OUT DELICATE ON SO MANY LEVELS. ALUMNI PARK OR THE PROTESTER ACTUALLY TAKING PLACE TONIGHT AND HAVEN'T TAKING PLACE ALL DAY TODAY IS THE LOCATION WHERE THE GRADUATION, THE COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY TAKES PLACE AT USC VERY SYMBOLIC IN THAT WAY AS WELL. AS YOU KNOW WE WERE REFERRING TO YOU EARLIER THERE WAS SOME TENSION AND CONTROVERSY AT USC EARLIER THIS WEEK WITH THE VALEDICTORIAN NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEAK BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBLE TENSIONS ABOUT IT'S HAPPENING IN THE MIDDLE EAST RIGHT NOW SHE HAD SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS THE UNIVERSITY DID NOT LIKE AND THEY SAID WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET ANYONE SPEAK FOR THAT MATTER. OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF TENSION ARTY FORMING ON CAMPUS AND OUT TODAY AS IT JUAN WAS MENTIONING AN ENCAMPMENT WAS SET UP THIS WITH PEOPLE BRINGING IN TENTS AND SIGNS AND FOOD TO STAY THERE AT THE PARK AND HOLD THESE DEMONSTRATIONS. THAT IS WHEN THE LAPD SHORTLY AFTER NOON TODAY PUT OUT A TACTICAL WORD AFTER THERE WAS A SMALL SKIRMISH THERE ONE PERSON WAS DETAINED WHEN THE TEMPS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY IT IS A PUBLIC PROPERTY ON USC THEY CANNOT HAVE TENTS THERE AND THESE ENCAMPMENTS THAT THE FIRST SCUFFLE WE SAW. THERE IS ANOTHER ONE THAT JUAN WAS REFERRING TO ON THE 6:00 P.M. HOUR A WOMAN WAS DETAINED FOR WHAT APPEARED TO BE SOME SORT OF A WATER BOTTLE OR SOMETHING WITH THE LIQUID IN IT AT OFFICERS. WE DO NOT KNOW THEY WERE NOT THE SISTERLY ACTUAL PROTESTERS PERHAPS PEOPLE WATCHING WHAT WAS HAPPENING A IN SUPPORTING THE EFFORT. WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN IS ON THE GROUND AS WE WATCH A PROTEST TAKE TO THE STREETS SURROUNDING THE PARK PICK WORKS ALSO ON THE GROUND WE HAVE TOM AS WATCHING A GROUP OF PROTESTERS GET SMALLER AS ARRESTS CONTINUE TONIGHT. >> IT IS VERY METHODICAL. AS WE HAVE BEEN REPORTING IT IS A ONE BY ONE THE OFFICERS COME UP TO THE GROUP. LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE ALMOST HELPING THEM CHOOSE AMONG THEMSELVES WHICH ONE WANTS TO GO INTO CUSTODY NEXT. IT IS THAT PEACEFUL AND ORDERLY YOU SEE OFFICERS TO THE GROUP PRETTY SEE A WOMAN GETTING UP SHE'S ABOUT TO GET ZIP TIED. SHE WAS SITTING IN THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE AS SHE SAID IS GETTING MUCH SMALLER. THERE IS A GROUP SURROUNDING THE PROTESTERS THEY WERE TAKEN AWAY FIRST. MOST OF THEM ANYWAY NOW THEY ARE WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE. ALSO WHAT YOU HAVE IS A LOT OF ONLOOKERS HERE. THEY ARE CHANTING SHAME ON YOU AS THE LAST THING WE HAVE FOR THEM CHANCE. BUT FOR THE MOST PART IT'S A GROUP OF PEOPLE LOOKING AND WATCHING. HANDS OFF STUDENTS IS WHAT THEY ARE CHANTING NOW. BUT BESIDES A CHANTING RIGHT NOW THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL WE HAVE REALLY SEEN IN THE LAST HOUR OR SO IS JUAN WAS SAYING WE DID SEE THE WATER BOTTLES BEING THROWN AND WATER AT ONE POINT THEY WERE FORMING A SKIRMISH LINE AROUND THE PARK BUT THEN THEY COLLAPSE THE LINE RIGHT NOW THAT'S WHERE WE STAND. A MUCH SMALLER CIRCLE OF OFFICERS. NO ONE IS CHALLENGING THEM FROM MY VANTAGE POINT HAVE NOT SEEN ANYONE TRY TO PUSH THR THE LINE. NO ONE HAS MADE ANY ATTEMPT TO RUN INTO THE PARK FROM WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. THE BIG QUESTION I HAVE IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY DO HAVE EVERYONE IN CUSTODY? WILL THEY PUSH THE LINE OUT SO THE PARK STAYS CLEAR? UNCLEAR WITH THEIR STRATEGY IS. RIGHT NOW IT SEEMS TO BE GOING AS PLANNED. WE ARE SEEING A ONE PERSON TO AN EXPLETIVE GESTURE. I DO NOT KNOW WHO IT WAS POINTED OUT, DIRECTED AT WAS OF THE OFFICERS? IT IS SORT OF UNCLEAR WHAT THAT PERSON WAS DOING. BUT AGAIN YOU'RE WATCHING A ONE BY ONE THE OFFICERS ARRESTING THESE PEOPLE THE OTHER THING I NOTICED BESIDES THE CHANTING THE OFFICERS SEEM RELAXED. IT IS NOT SEEM AS TENTS. IT IS TENSE EARLIER BUT THEY DO NOT SEEM TO BEAT -- MAKE YOU CAN READ THEIR FACES IN THESE SITUATIONS YOU CAN GET A SENSE OF HOW OFFICERS ARE HANDLING SITUATIONS WHERE THEY SEEM VERY CONTROLLED. THEY SEEM VERY POISED. IT IS NOT SEEMED LIKE THERE'S A REAL THREAT TO THEM AT THIS MOMENT. THAT CAN CHANGE IT IS A VOLATILE SITUATION. IT CAN BE VERY CHAOTIC AT TIMES. BUT BESIDES THE CHANTING YOU PROBABLY HEAR AROUND ME THAT IS THE EXTENT OF IT. >> TOM HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO ANY OF THE STUDENTS? WHAT IS THE PLAN GOING FORWARD AS YOU WERE MENTIONING ONCE EVERYONE IS ARRESTED, ONCE THEY CLEAR THE AREA. ONCE AT NIGHTFALL HAPPENS IS THERE A PLAN? >> RIGHT NOW THERE IS NO ORGANIZED PROTESTS WHERE THERE IS NO PROTEST ORGANIZER THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PROTESTERS BUT NOT NECESSARILY BEING LED BY ONE PERSON. I'VE SPOKEN TO A FEW. I THINK PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED USC DID NOT LET THIS PROTEST GO ON A LITTLE BIT LONGER. THEY FEEL LIKE THE CAMPUS REACTED SO QUICKLY AS THE LAPD TO COME IN WITHOUT LETTING PEOPLE CARRY OUT THIS PROTEST FOR LONGER. THAT'S KIND OF THE MAIN THING I BEEN HEARING FROM STUDENTS I'VE TALKED TO THEIR SORT OF SURPRISED THE LAPD WAS ASKED TO COME IN AND MOVE PEOPLE AS QUICKLY AS THEY DID. BUT THERE WE GO, THE GROUP GETTING SMALLER AND SMALLER AS ONE BY ONE THEY ARE LEADING PEOPLE AWAY IN ZIP TIES. BUT THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY MAJOR COMPLAINT I HAVE HEARD FROM PROTESTERS SOME ARE BEWILDERED OR JUST WONDERING WHY THERE WASN'T A LITTLE BIT LONGER OVER TIME FOR PEOPLE TO OTHER VOICES HEARD IN THIS PARTICULAR PROTEST OBVIOUSLY THAT UNIVERSITY, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN SITUATION THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH. THEY HAVE DEMANDS ON THIS PROPERTY THAT OTHER STUDENTS WHO NEED TO USE A CO, GRADUATION OF SUCCUMBING UP. THERE'S ANY NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT WOULD BRING THE UNIVERSITY TO BRING THE LAPD TO CLEAR OUT THE PARKS. IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE ADMINISTRATION DEALS WITH SOME THE STUDENT COMPLAINTS ARE IF THEY ARE ACCUSED OF SILENCING FREE SPEECH BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T DIDHAVE THE LAPD COME IN TO BREK THIS UP AS QUICKLY AS THEY DID. BUT FOR THE MOST PART WE HAD SOME ISSUES BUT FOR THE MOST PART IT HAS BEEN VERY ORDERLY FOR THOSE MOMENTS OF TENSION OBVIOUSLY IN CHAOS A LITTLE BIT OF CHAOS AS WELL. BUT I THINK DESMOND WAS SAYING IT'S PRETTY METHODICAL AND ORGANIZED EFFORT THAT HAS NOT REALLY BEEN DETERRED FROM THE LAPD. THEY'VE JUST KIND OF DONE WHAT THEY ARE TRAINED TO DO. THEY FOMED A LINE AND ARE TAKING PEOPLE AWAY ONE BY ONE WITHOUT ANY INCIDENT AT THIS POINT. ESPECIALLY WITH THE ARRESTS THERE IS NOT BEEN AN ESCALATION IN THE CROWD. THERE'S NOT BEEN PEOPLE CHARGING THROUGH THE LINE BECAUSE THEY'RE ANGRY ABOUT THE ARRESTED. JUST CHANTING, PEOPLE KIND OF LOOKING AND YOU CAN SEE COOKS LOOKS LIKE WE LOST TOM FOR JUST A SECOND. >> CUT SHORT CAN'T SAY TOO MUCH FOR A QUICK STOP WE LOST HER AUDIO FOR A SECOND STRAIGHT GO AHEAD WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. >> WAS SAYING I'M KIND OF ON MY TIPTOES TRYING TO SEE THE CROWD HERE. IT'S NOT NEARLY AS LARGE AS IT WAS BEFORE. THERE IS DEFINITELY PEOPLE I THINK YOU CAN SEE A YOUNG MAN UPSET BY WHAT HE IS SEEING THERE. OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE AE PASSIONATE IN THEIR BELIEVES AND WILLING TO GO TO JAIL FOR THEM ARE GOING TO HAVE THAT PRETTY GOING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE UPSET THIS IS A TOUGH THING FOR SOME TO WATCH THERE'S A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE HERE AND THEY ARE SUPPORTING THEIR FELLOW STUDENTS SOME OF WHOM MAY BE PALESTINIAN AND OBVIOUSLY VERY UPSET ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE SEEING PLAY OUT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND PLAYING OUT IN GAZA THERE'S THERE IS ALSO AR OF JEWISH STUDENTS ON CAMPUS THAT ARE ALSO HAVING SAFETY CONCERNS. OFFICE OF THE PROTEST OVER THE WAR IS A TOTAL LEGITIMATE PROTEST TO HAVE IT. THERE'S ALSO BEEN A NUMBER OF ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS USC NOT GETTING A GREAT BREAK FROM THE ADL. POLICE ARE AWARE OF ALL OF THESE DYNAMICS PLAYING OUT. THERE'S A LOT HAPPENING HERE. WE HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING ANTI-SEMITIC SINCE WE'VE BEEN THERE SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE AND NOT I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT'S PROTEST ABOUT THE SITUATION IN GAZA AND PEOPLE ANGRY ABOUT WHAT THEY'VE SEEN PLAYED OUT I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYONE HURLING INSULTS OR RACIST OR ANTI-SEMITIC SLURS AT ANYONE THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS THEY ARE. PEOPLE SEEM PRETTY FOCUSED ON A ONE CONCEPT AT LEAST THE TIME I HAVE BEEN YOUR OBVIOUSLY CANNOT SPEAK FOR WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER TODAY. BUT IN ANY CASE IN SOME WAYS A WINDING DOWN AS I LOOK AT THE CROWD IT'S A FEW DOZEN WHERE I AM. IT MAY BE A FEW HUNDRED IN THE CIRCLE AROUND THE PARK. MAYBE PEOPLE KIND OF GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS NOW FOR THEY SELL THE CHOPPER UP GOING AROUND AND AROUND AND OBVIOUSLY IS A TACTIC TO GET THE CROWD TO DISPERSE THEIR PUTTING UP A POLICE LINE SOMEONE BROKE THE CRIME TAPE, THAT'S NOT GOING TO GO OVER WELL. >> WE ARE SEEING THAT. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS GOING TO CAUSE TENSION. THIS IS SOMETHING WE DO NOT WANT TO SEE. SOMEONE IS RUNNING AWAY. THIS IS A ONE OF THOSE THINGS YOU HAVE A ONE LITTLE THING HAPPEN IN THE CROWD. SOMEONE DOES SOMETHING STUPID. THROWS SOMETHING OR TAKES DOWN CRIME TAPE OR WHATEVER. ONE LITTLE ESCALATION CAN CHANGE THE WHOLE DYNAMIC YOU'VE GOT ONE PERSON STICKING A MIDDLE FINGER IN THE FACE OF AN OFFICER IT'S SOME SILLINESS, COME ON. THIS OFFICER IS JUST DOING HIS JOB AND TRYING TO SECURE THE LOCATION AS HE WAS CALLED TO DO. >> IT IS A DELICATE BALANCE THE PROTESTERS WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS. ON ONE SIDE OF THE EQUATION IS THE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH THE RIGHT TO DEMONSTRATES. THE RIGHT TO SAY YO UPSET ABOUTA CERTAIN SITUATION AND THEN THE SAFETY OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC THE STUDENTS THAT ARE OUT THERE. AND THE SUBJECT AT HAND THE MIDDLE EAST HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HOT SUBJECT HERE WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO BASICALLY WANT THE UNIVERSITY TO PULL AWAY ANY INVESTMENTS FROM COMPANIES OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT SUPPORT ISRAEL. IT IS NOT EASY LIKE USC HAS MANY INVESTORS AND MANY DONORS. MANY ALUMNI AND FORMER STUDENTS WHO ARE JEWISH. THEY ARE SUPPORTERS OF THE UNIVERSITY. >> DURING THE 6:00 P.M. OUR CHILDREN INTERSECTION OUTSIDE OF CAMPUS. THAT WAS JEFFERSON AND HOOVER A LARGE GROUP OF PROTESTERS GATHERED IN THE INTERSECTION THERE IS STOPPING TRAFFIC MAKING A LOT OF TRAFFIC TURNAROUNDS. IT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE THIS GROUP IS NOW ON THE STREETS AROUND EXPOSITION PARK AROUND THE USC CAMPUS TAKING THEIR PURCHASE NOW TO THE STREETS. I BELIEVE THERE IS SOME TRAFFIC CONTROL AHEAD OF THEM. THE LAPD REALLY ON TOP OF IT TODAY WITH THIS WHEN THEY CALLED AT A TACTICAL ALERT A CITY WIDE TACTICAL ALERT EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON TO MAKE SURE ALL THE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE SHOULD ANYTHING HAPPEN OR JUST SO THEY CAN SUPPORT THIS GROUP AS WELL. AGAIN FIRST AMENDMENT SPEECH RIGHTS BEING PROTECTED LAPD WANTS THEM TO DO THIS THEY WANT TO ALLOW THE PROTESTERS TO DO THIS BECAUSE IT IS IN THEIR RIGHT. >> DO IT SAFELY. DO IT SAFELY BRICK EXACTLY WHERE YOU SEE THE PROTEST MARCHING DOWN THE STREETS OF EXPOSITION PARK THE POLICE ON CAMPUS STILL TRYING TO MAKE THOSE LAST FEW ARREST AFTER THE ORDER WENT OUT JUST AFTER 5:00. >> WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT FROM SKYCAL ON THE SIDE OF THE SCREEN I'D SEEN A SHOT FROM SKYCAL EARLIER OF THE INTERSECTION OF JEFFERSON AND HOOVER AND IT LOOKED LIKE THE MAJORITY OF THAT INTERSECTION HAVE BEEN CLEARED OUT. TO FLOW THROUGH THERE. IF YOU ARE AN OR NEAR EXPOSITION PARK OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS IS GOING TO BE VERY BUSY. TRAFFIC WILL BE DIVERTED AROUND THE UNIVERSITY JUST TO KEEP THINGS CLEAR TO MAKE SURE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES CAN GET IN AND OUT IF THEY HAVE TOO. THAT IS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF. AND ALSO THE SAME GROUP SINK MARCHING AROUND THE CAMPUS IS THE SAME ONE BLOCKING THE INTERSECTION EARLIER. THE SAME APPROACH AS TWO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. IT WILL LIMIT HOW MANY OFFICERS CAN RESPOND. THE GATES WERE SHUT THERE SHUT TO THE FACT POLICE OFFICERS WANT TO MAKE SURE PROTESTS WERE SAFE. NOT ANY OTHER PARTIES WERE ON CAMPUS. POSSIBLE SKIRMISHES THAT COULD TAKE PLACE. AND SO THIS IS A BIGGER GROUP NOW THAT I IS OUTSIDE OF CAMPUS. THESE COULD POSSIBLY INCLUDE STUDENTS AS PEOPLE WELL AS PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST PROTESTING. IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE BEEN GATHERING SINCE EARLIER THIS EVENING MAKE THIS HAPPEN. A LOT OF THIS WE ARE SITTING ACROSS COLLEGE CAMPUSES THIS WEEK. MANY ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE MAINLY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COLUMBIA. JUST THE SAME SCENES OF PLAYING OUT WITH ENCAMPMENTS BEING TAKEN APART BECAUSE OF THE FACT A LOT OF PRIVATE PROPERTIES DO NOT ALLOW THOSE THINGS TO TAKE PLACE ON THEIR CAMPUSES AS IT COULD BE A DISRUPTION FOR EVENTS AT SCHOOL THAT TAKE PLACE WITH STUDENTS. WE ARE LOOKING AT A SMALLER PROTEST ON THE STREETS OF EXPOSITION PARK TONIGHT YOU SEE IT USC BUILDINGS. >> WE SEE SOME OF THOSE SIGNS THAT SAID IN THE OCCUPATION IN GAZA. STOP THE GENOCIDE. SOMEONE HAD BEEN ON CAMPUS FOR MOST OF THE DAY WAS ON CAMPUS AT THE VERY BEGINNING PART OF THE PROTEST. SHE WAS IMPORTANT FOR KATE KELTNER'S AT FOUR, FIVE, SIX BRING US UP-TO-DATE WHAT YOU KNOW? THERE MAY BE TWO PEOPLE LEFT SITTING DOZENS OF PEOPLE WERE INSIDE THE CENTER CIRCLE IN THE MIDDLE OF ALUMNI PARK. THERE ARE LINKS IN ARMS. EASILY I WOULD SAY SEVERAL DOZENS OF PROTESTERS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND TAKEN AWAY AT THIS TIME. FIRST ARREST HAPPENED IN THE MORNING. WHEN DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS HERE AT USC STARTED COMING IN AND REMOVING TENTS. WHEN YOU SAY YOU SAW A SIGN THAT SAID END THE OCCUPATION. AND IT GAZA. THIS APPROACH US ACCORDING TO ORGANIZERS WAS SYMBOLIC OF THAT OCCUPATION HENCE THE ENCAMPMENT AND SUPPORTING THE TENTS UP AND STAYING HERE WITH THE INTENTION OF BEING HERE FOR THE LONG HAUL. AND ACTUALLY MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. YOU SEE THAT LAST A PERSON WHO IS ON THE GROUND THERE HOLDING THE FLAG OF PALESTINE AND THE CROWD IS CHEERING I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT SOMETHING I NOTICED AG DETAINED VOLUNTARILY THEY GOT UP AND DID WHAT OFFICERS TOLD THEM TO DO. SOME HAD EAR TO EAR SMILE. IT'S ALMOST LIKE THEY WERE PROUD OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THEY ARE STRONG IN THEIR CONVICTIONS THEY ARE STAYING TRUE TO WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN AS THIS LAST PERSON COMES UP IT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISING IF PEOPLE STARTED CHEERING IF WE HAVE HEARD AS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED WHICH IS A SHAME ON YOU. BUT EVEN THEN I DO WANT TO SAY IT FEELS VERY PEACEFUL. OFFICERS MAKE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT THEY CAME IN THEIR FORMATION AND STARTED MOVING TOWARD ALUMNI PARK THEY WERE VERY MUCH ON THE DEFENSIVE WITH THEIR BODY LANGUAGE OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE TRYING TO SECURE THE PERIMETER. AS IT WERE PROTESTERS EVERYONE SEEMED A LITTLE ON EDGE OFFICERS ON THE DEFENSIVE SUM PROTESTERS NOT KNOWING WHERE TO GO OR WHAT TO DO. AND OF COURSE YOU HAVE CERTAIN ACTIONS THAT TRIGGERED PUSHING AND SHOVING AND THROWING WATER BOTTLES AT ONE POINT EARLIER THIS MORNING A GLASS BOTTLE WAS THROWN JUST ABOVE US LANDED RIGHT IN FRONT OF US SHATTERING. THERE HAVE BEEN INCIDENTS HERE AND THERE. BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT, AS OF NOW EVEN OFFICERS ARE VERY MUCH RELAXED. IT SEEMS LIKE PROTESTERS ARE AS WELL IT SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE ACCEPTING THAT LAST OF THOSE IN THE INNER CIRCLE CHANTING AND SPREADING THAT MESSAGE OF HOPEFULLY P PIE PEACE AND GAZA D PEACE IN ISRAEL NOW THE PROTESTERS ARE WAITING TO SEE WHAT COMES NEXT. THAT IS THE SAME FOR THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY'RE WAITING FOR AN ORDER TO SEE WHAT COMES NEXT. HOW THEY'RE GOING TO CLEAR UP THIS AREA. CHANCE ARE GOING ON IT'S NOT AS LOUD AS IT WAS EARLIER. I WANT TO POINT OUT THE BIG QUESTION HERE AND WHAT INITIALLY TRIGGERED THE FIRST BOUT OF TENSION BETWEEN OFFICERS AND PROTESTERS WAS THE FACT SOME STUDENT LEADERS -- WE WERE THERE IN THE DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SAFETY CAME UP AND TRIED TO USE THE MICROPHONE ON THE PATROL CAR TO TELL THEM TO CLEAR OUT, THE QUESTION HERE IS WAS THAT ENOUGH? DID THEY GIVE THE PROTESTERS ENOUGH WARNING? FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT THEY ATTEMPTED TO SAY SOMETHING, WE COULD NOT HEAR WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. AND THEN AN OFFICER TOLD AN ORGANIZATION LEADER NEXT TO HER FOR GOING TO QUIT AND MOVE THE TENTS THAT WAS NOT ECHOED. IT WAS A SECOND LATER A LINE OF OFFICERS CAME MINNESOTA REMOVING THOSE TENTS. THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE SAW OFFICERS AND PROTESTERS CLASH. A FEW MINUTES AFTER THE LAPD WE SSAW WATER BOTTLES BEING THROWN AND SUCH. I WANT TO POINT OUT LAPD HAS APPROACHED THIS FROM A VERY SENSITIVE STANDPOINT AND HAVE USED A JUDGMENT IN THE WAY THEY HANDLE THIS. ULTIMATELY WE SEE THE RESULTS. BOTH THE PARTIES ARE WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. IF YOU LOOK TO THE MIDDLE OF ALUMNI PARK, NO ONE IS SITTING. NO ONE IS STANDING. EVERYONE IS BEEN DETAINED. IT IS WELL OVER 40 PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AND TAKEN AWAY. OF COURSE THE TWO EARLIER WHAT IN THE MORNING WHO WAS ARRESTED THEN RELEASED AND A ONE JUST BEFORE OFFICERS SURROUNDED ALUMNI PARK AND THEN STARTED TAKING PROTESTERS A ONE BY ONE FROM THE CENTER CIRCLE FOR AT THIS POINT IT SEEMS LIKE OFFICERS ARE REALLY JUST WAITING FOR ANY SORT OF DIRECTION. ANY WORD PART OF THE REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THIS ALL PLAYS OUT AS THIS PROTEST CONTINUES. AGAIN AT LEAST NINE HOURS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HERE STANDING, CHANTING, MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD. THEY CAN CERTAINLY GO INTO A WELL OVER INTO ONE OR TWO MORE HOURS. WE WILL WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT AND KEEP YOU POSTED AND WILL BE SEE DOWN HERE ON THE GROUND. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN YOU ARE LOOKING AT WHAT HAPPENED EARLIER THAT SHE WAS REFERRING TO A MAN DETAINED WHEN HIS TENT WAS BEING TAKEN AWAY BY PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS ON CAMPUS SAID BECAUSE OF THE PRIVATE PROPERTY THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE THE TENTS HE HAD THE ENCAMPMENT SET UP WHICH HAS BEEN THE SCENE AT CAMPUSES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. YOU ALSO SAW THE MAN GET INTO A PATROL CAR AND PROTESTERS SURROUNDED THAT CAR BANGING ON THE DOOR AND DEMANDING HE BE RELEASED. HE WAS RELEASED A SHORT TIME AFTER THAT WE DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CROWD TO SET OR FROM SOME OTHER REASONS APPARENTLY HE WAS RELEASED AND THEN WE DID NOT SEE ANYTHING IN TERMS OF SKIRMISHES OR CONFLICTS, THERE'S THE SCENE RIGHT THERE PLAYING OUT ON THE RIGHT SIDE PRECOOKED TO THE VEST ON? QUESTION. >> OWES THE TENT BEFORE THAT. BUT AFTER THAT AROUND THE 6:00 P.M. HOUR WE ARE STILL COVERING THE PROTESTS I CONTINUED ON CAMPUS THERE IS A BIT OF A SKIRMISH WITH POLICE OFFICERS WENT A WOMAN THROUGH SOME SORT OF OBJECTS WITH LIQUID IN IT AT OFFICERS. THAT PERSON WAS QUICKLY DETAINED. SHORTLY AFTER THAT WE KEPT SEEING PEOPLE DETAINED OR ONE BY ONE AS THEY ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM A CIRCLE VERY PEACEFULLY ONE BY ONE BEING DETAINED. >> RECEIPT MOMENTS THERE'S A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE PROTESTING IS A VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION WHICH IS HOW THE LAPD HANDLED THESE PROTESTERS. HOW A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTEST. THE WAY OFFICERS HANDLE THINGS IF YOU WERE HERE IN LOS ANGELES YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC. >> THE HEIGHT OF COVID AND THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTEST. IT WAS TENSE EVERY SINGLE TIME. THESE OFFICERS THESE ARE THE SITUATIONS THEY TRAIN FOR. YOU CAN SEE HOW WELL ORGANIZE THE STUDENTS ARE AS WELL. SEE THE SIGNS ARE WELL PRINTED OUT SIGNS. AND SO FAR WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL ISSUES WITH THE WATER BOTTLE BEING THROWN, THE TENTS BEING REMOVED AND A LITTLE ANGER AT BACK-AND-FORTH AS TOM WAS TELLING US SOME OF THE PROTESTERS WERE USING OBSCENE GESTURES TOWARD THE OFFICERS. OTHER THAN THAT WE'VE NOT SEEN ANYONE TAKEN AWAY BY AMBULANCE. ANY ONE HURT. LOOKS LIKE WE WITH T WOOD SEATE PAST VIDEO THEY ARE JUST LEADING THE STUDENTS OFF TO AN AREA JUST OFFER FROM ALUMNI PARK WHERE THEY ARE BEING BASICALLY ARRESTED. DETAINED OR ARRESTED THEY FILL OUT SOME PAPERWORK I THINK YOU GET RELEASED RIGHT AWAY FOR THE NOT TAKING TO JAIL BUT THERE IS A RECORD YOU HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT IS GOING FORWARD? WILL THESE PROTESTERS DISPERSE, MOVE ON, COME BACK TOMORROW QUESTION THAT REMAINS TO BE SEATED WITH THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN IS A PROTEST HAPPENING ON THIS TREATS OF EXPOSITION PARK. ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN IS EARLIER THIS EVENING AT EXPOSITION PARK AND ALUMNI PARK AS WELL. MUST GO TO THE GROUND ONCE AGAIN TO GET A LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW. TOM JOINS US NOW OUT THE UPDATE. >> GOOD EVENING TO YOU. RIGHT NOW THINGS ARE PRETTY STATIC. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE PARK YOU CAN TAKE A LIVE LOOK. PEOPLE STANDING AROUND. THE POLICE CLIENT IS STILL HERE. NOTHING GOING ON OTHER THAN THAT. PEOPLE ARE CHANTING TO FREE PALESTINE THE ONLOOKERS HAVE STUCK AROUND. I HAVE SAID THIS A FEW HUNDRED PEOPLE STILL HERE, MAYBE MORE THAN THAT. IT'S DEFINITELY A SMALLER CROWD THAN IT WAS. VERY PEACEFUL, CALM RIGHT NOW BESIDES THE CHEERING LAPD CHOPPER IS STILL CIRCLING THE PARK THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A DETERRENT THEY ARE HOPING THAT WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE A PEOPLE TO LEAVE THE PARK AND GO HOME. AS FOR RIGHT NOW PEOPLE ARE JUST MILLING ABOUT. CHANTING ANYTHING THEY'RE KIND AND WAITING TO SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING NEXT AS WELL. AS WE HAVE SEEN IT PLAY OUT OVER THE LAST HOUR OR SO A LOT OF VERY ORDERLY AND METHODICAL ARREST PEOPLE GOING WITHOUT ANY INCIDENTS BEING PULLED OUT OF THE GROUP THOSE IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK ONE BY ONE WITHOUT ANY RESISTANCE REALLY AND THEY PEACEFUL AND TO THAT PART OF THINGS. NOW WE ARE WAITING TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE GROUP. THAT IS STILL IN THE CROWD. STILL WAITING HERE AND STILL STANDING AT THE POLICE LINE. >> LOOKS LIKE WE LOST TOM FOR JUST A SECOND PERIOD. >> YOU ARE BACK WE LOST HER AUDIO FOR JUST A SECOND PERIOD. >> OKAY HOPEFULLY THE MIC. ALL RIGHT CUT OUT AGAIN. >> I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT NOW CAN HEAR ME OKAY? >> GO AHEAD, TOM. >> RIGHT WE WILL TRY AGAIN. THE OFFICERS SEEM TO BE THEY ARE STANDING GUARD BUT THERE IS NOT A TENSE SITUATION AS THERE WAS EARLIER. THEY ARE CHANTING SHAME ON YOU. OTHER THAN THAT THE OFFICERS HAVE EASED UP IN TERMS OF THEIR STANCE. THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY STILL IN THE POLICE LINE. THEY ARE STILL MAKING SURE NO ONE CROSSES IT. THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE NO ONE REENTERS THE CENTER OF THE PARK BUT THE PARK IS STILL TECHNICALLY OCCUPIED BY A GROUP OF PEOPLE THEY HAVE NOT LEFT. SO THE QUESTION BECOMES HOW LONG DID THEY ALLOW THE PROTESTERS TO BE HERE? AS I WAS SAYING EARLIER ONE OF THE STUDENTS I WAS TALKING TO, HE WAS A TELLING ME HE WAS A MYSTIFIED A LITTLE UPSET USA DID NOT LOVE THE PROTEST TO GO ON FOR LONGER. THEY FELT PEOPLE'S VOICES WERE NOT NECESSARILY HEARD FOR AS LONG AS IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN -- MAKE THE UNIVERSITY ACTED TOO QUICKLY. OF COURSE EVERYONE IS A DIFFERENT OPINION ON THAT WHETHER THEY WERE TOO QUICK OR ACTED IN A WAY TO PREVENT. [INAUDIBLE] >> NOW I THINK WE DID LOSE TOM'S A CAMERA AND AUDIO. TOM IF YOU CAN HEAR US AND START TALKING WE WILL STOP TALKING WHEN YOU RECONNECT WITH US. YOU CAN IMAGINE A FLUID SITUATION MOVING AROUND THE PROTESTERS. WE ARE ALL DEALING WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY. >> WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IS THOMAS REFERRING TO THERE ON THE GROUND STILL AT ALUMNI PARK AT USC THERE ARE DOZENS OF PROTESTERS STILL ON CAMPUS BUT LET'S CODE IT WAS ON THE GROUND TO GIVE US THIS. >> AS YOU MENTIONED THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF PROTESTERS OUT HERE. WE HEAR THE DRUMS GOING OFF. WE SEE FLAGS BEING WAIVED AND CERTAINLY SOME CHANCE IT WILL BE ALSO SEE IS A LOT OF TRASH LEFT BEHIND. I BELIEVE THAT'S MOSTLY BECAUSE OF PROTESTERS HAD TO GET UP AND LEAVE WHEN THEIR TENTS WERE INITIALLY BEING STRIPPED BY OFFICERS AND REMOVED THEY HAD TO GET UP IN A HASTE BECAUSE THEY QUICKLY REALIZED IF I DON'T GET MIKE TENSE, GRABBED MY BELONGINGS ARE GOING TO BE TAKEN AWAY. THEN WE SAW THEM MARCHING WITH THEIR TENTS LITERALLY IN HAND AROUND ALUMNI PARK. AN EARLIER LAPD TRIED PUTTING UP THAT YELLOW CRIME SCENE TAPE AROUND THE TREES THEY QUICKLY REALIZE THAT'S A REALLY BAD IDEA. THE TAPE WAS TORN APART BY PROTESTERS THAT WERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THOSE TREES THAT SEEMS LIKE OFFICERS ARE HOLDING THEIR LIEN AGAIN AND AM VERY MUCH RELAXED POSITION. THINGS DO NOT FEEL TENSE AT ALL THERE ARE NO CLASHES NO VISIBLE CLASHES WE CAN SEE AT THIS POINT AND IN DETAILING WHAT WE HAVE SEEN AND LIVED THROUGH AS WE HAVE BEEN COVERING THIS SINCE JUST AFTER 10:00 P.M. THIS MORNING. WHEN WE GOT HERE EVERYTHING WAS VERY PEACEFUL. PEOPLE WERE SETTING UP SHOP. PUTTING UP THEIR TENTS AND TALKING AND SHARING STORIES. OFFICERS EVENTUALLY MOVED IN. TOO MANY PEOPLE SURPRISES SEEMINGLY WITHOUT WARNING. ALTHOUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY DID TRY ON THEIR MEGAPHONE ON THEIR PATROL CAR TO SAY SOMETHING THE NOISE AND DROWN ALL THAT OUT. SO, TOO MANY PROTESTERS I FEEL LIKE EVEN HEARING THEIR REACTIONS THEY ALMOST FELT BLINDSIDED THEY WERE NOT GIVEN ENOUGH TIME OR WARNING OR EVEN GIVEN ANY INFORMATION AT ALL AS TO WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO AND HOW THEY NEEDED TO DO IT AND IN WHAT TIMEFRAME THEY NEEDED TO DO IT IN. YOU SEE CHAOS STARTING TO ERUPT. VERY INTENSE MOMENTS OBVIOUSLY HEIGHTENED EMOTIONS AND SO ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER. WE SEE ONE OF THE PROTESTERS BEING ARRESTED AND TAKEN INTO A PATROL CAR. I DO WANT TO ELABORATE ON THAT YOU ALL TOUCHED ON THAT THE PROTESTER WAS TAKE IT INTO THAT PATROL CAR IT WAS UNCLEAR AS TO WHY THEY WERE RELEASED. WE ALSO DO NOT KNOW WHY THEY WERE RELEASED I CAN TELL YOU WE WERE VERY CLOSE TO THAT PATROL CART WE COULD PROBABLY ALMOST TOUCH IT IF WE WANTED TOO. THAT PATROL CART WAS SURROUNDED 360 DEGREES FIGHT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE I AM TALKING A LINE GOING ALL THE WAY RATHER PATROL CAR AND LAYERS OF PEOPLE BLANKETING THE AREA. EVEN IF THAT OFFICER THAT WAS IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT WANTED TO MOVE THEY ABSOLUTELY COULD NOT MOVE. BECAUSE THE CROWD WAS MOVING TOWARD THE PATROL CAR. WE SAW AT ONE POINT THEY TRIED TO REVERSE THE CAR, BAD IDEA FOR THE END UP STAYING RIGHT WHERE THEY WERE. WE ASSUMED THEY SAW PROTESTERS WERE GETTING VERY EMOTIONAL. VERY PASSIONATE AND WERE GETTING LOUDER AND LOUDER. THEY WERE MAKING THEIR VOICES HEARD AND GIVING OUT A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT ONE OF THE PROTESTER OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THEN WE START SEEING SOME MOVEMENTS. WE START SEEING OFFICERS SAY EVERYBODY BACK UP. WE ARE GOING TO RELEASE THIS INDIVIDUAL THEY ENCOURAGE THE CROWD TO GO BACK TO ALUMNI PARK. THE PROTESTER WHO WAS IN THAT CAR GOT WORD FROM A CLOSE FRIEND OR ACQUAINTANCE THAT WAS POTENTIALLY AN ALUMNI AT USC HE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GO AWAY FROM OFFICERS TO ALUMNI PARK. WE SEE AND ASK LINDA SITUATION WHERE WE SEE CHAOS BREAKING OUTCOME WAS TO CROWD GOING TOWARD OFFICERS. A LOT OF TENSION THEN THAT TENSION IS DIFFUSE AND THAT WAS THE SECOND TIME WE SAW THAT BY THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN OFFICERS STORMED AND STARTED STRIPPING THE PROTESTERS OF THEIR TENANTSF COURSE THE SECOND SITUATION WE SEE THE PROTESTER GETTING DETAINED, GETTING PUT INTO THE PATROL CAR AND EVERYONE MOVING HERE AND THEN PEACE ONCE AGAIN. WE AGAIN START SEEING ATTENTION STARTING TO RISE. A MOTION STARTING TO GET HEIGHTENED WHEN THE LAPD PRESENTS IS DEFINITELY PERCEIVED, SEEN, FELT THEY START MOVING IN. THEN WE SEE MORE CLASH. MORE OF THE TENSION. WE SEE OFFICERS AND PROTESTERS ALIKE ON THE DEFENSIVE AND UNDERSTANDABLY SO OFFICERS LOOKING OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER AND ULTIMATELY THEMSELVES AND PRINPROTESTERS TRYING TO DO THE SAME. I THINK BOTH PARTIES TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON. WHAT'S GOING TO COME NEXT AND BE SAFE ABOUT IT. WE SEE CERTAIN ACTIONS THAT SPLT THINGS LIKE WATER BOTTLES BEING THROWN AT THEM. WE WERE HIT BY WATER BOTTLES AS WELL. WATER BEING THROWN AT OFFICERS AND GOING EVERYWHERE TO TENSION IS HEIGHTENED AGAINST THIRD TIME I WOULD SAY TENSIONS WERE HIGH THERE IS A CLASH BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND POLICE. BUT NOW I MUCH DIFFERENT STORY AFTER DOZENS OF PEOPLE WERE DETAINED AND REMOVED. THE PROTESTERS ARE CHANTING YOU HEAR DRUMS AND SOME MUSIC. OTHER THAN THAT IT'S A VERY RELAXED SPACE. I DO NOT FEEL UNSAFE. MANY PEOPLE HERE BASED ON BODY LANGUAGE OF THEIR APPROACH TO THE SITUATION AND IN TALKING WITH OFFICERS IT DOESN'T SEEMED LIKE ANYONE FEELS THREATENED RIGHT NOW. EVERYTHING IS MUCH MORE RELAXED. IT SEEMS LIKE ONCE AGAIN WE HAVE A PEACEFUL ENVIRONMENT HERE AT USC AT ALUMNI PARK. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. WANT TO REMIND OUR VIEWERS STREAMING ON CBS NEWS LOS ANGELES RIGHT NOW WERE GOING TO CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE WHICH WERE KIKICK OUT VIEWERS WHICH REMIND YOU TO JOIN US FOR KCAL NEWS AT 8:00 P.M. AND 26 MINUTES WE WILL CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE. CAN. SUZIE: NOW, BREAKING NEWS POLICE MOVE IN AND DETAIN PRO PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS AT AMARK AT CAMPUS AT USC. CHAUNCY: WE WATCHED AROUND 5:00 LAND OFFICERS IN RIOT GEAR MOVING IN ORDERING PRO TEST ORS TO DISPERSE WALKING IN FORMATION AND CREATING ALIGN AROUND THE ENCAMPMENT. SUZIE: BEFORE ANYONE WAS DETAINED IT GOT TENSE, WATER WAS THROWN AT OFFICERS. YOU COULD SEE IT. CHAUNCY: AND DOZENS OF THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE ORDER TO DISPERSE LEFT THE PARK THEN TOOK PROTEST TO A NEARBY INTERSECTION, BLOCKING OFF TRAFFIC FOR A TIME NEAR CAMPUS. >> WELCOME TO KCAL NEWS 8:00, STREAMING LIVE ON CBS NEWS LOS ANGELES I AM SUZIE SUH. CHAUNCY: I AM CHAUNCY GLOVER, TOM WAIT IS LIVE ON SCENE WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING. REPORTER: GOOD EVENING, RIGHT NOW THERE ARE SPILL PROTESTERS IN IN ALUMNI PARK. THERE IS DRUMMING AND CHANTING. THIS IS A LARGE CROWD STILL. IT STARTED TO THIN A BIT BUT NOW IT IS STATIC, THEY HAVE NOT LEFT, THERE WAS AN ORDER TO LEAVE THE PARK. THE PEOPLE IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK WERE ARRESTED, DETAINED AND LEAD AWAY THE CROWD WATCHING, THEY HAVE NOT LEFT, AS WE HAVE BEEN SAYING, THEY ARE STILL HE HERE. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT. UNCLEAR WHETHER OR NOT LAPD WILL ENACT SKIRMISH LINE AGAIN. LAPD CHOPPER MAKING CIRCLES GOING AROUND HERE IN THE PARK TO TRY TO GET EVERYONE TO LEAVE. BUT RIGHT NOW UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES, THAT IS NOT HAPPENING. EARLIER, IT WAS PRETTY CHAOTIC THERE WERE SOME INCIDENTS THIS HAD THE CROWD FIRED UP. TAKE A LOOK. THAT IS WHERE WE SAW WATER BOTTLES THROWN AT OFFICERS, AND PUSHING AND SHOVING. THERE WAS AN ORDER TO DISPERSE GIVEN, THAT IS WHEN IT REALLY GOT TENSE, THE CROWD WAS SURGING AND IT WAS UNCLEAR WHAT WAS GOING ON, AS THE OFFICERS WERE FORMING LINES AND TRYING TO FORM A CIRCLE. YOU SEE THE VIDEO OF THEM MAKING THE CIRCLE AS PEOPLE REFUSE TO LEAVE, POLICE THEN BEGAN TAKING PEOPLE WHO CUSTODY, THEY WENT TO THE CENTER OF THE CROWD AND THEY WERE TAKING PEOPLE AWAY ONE BY ONE. VERY PEACEFUL, AS THEY ZIP TIED PEOPLE AND LEAD THEM FROM ONE SPOT IN THE CENTER OUT TO AN AREA WHERE THEY WERE BOOKED. THEY WILL BE PROCESSED DOWNTOWN. A VERY METHODICAL BUT YOU KNOW EFFECTIVE WAY THEY WERE ABLE TO CLEAR OUT THE PARK AT THAT POINT. NOW THE QUESTION IS WHAT DO THEY DO WITH THE OTHER PEOPLE HERE. LOOKING AT SOME EVENTS OF LATE AFTERNOON, THERE WAS MORE THAN 100 OFFICERS THAT MOVED IN, IN COLUMNS ON FOOT, IN ARMORED CAR, USC DECLARING THE CAMPS HAD TO GO ALL NONSTUDENTS HAD TO LEAVE, LAPD WAS THERE TO ENFORCE THAT. YOU KNOW, FOR THE MOST PARTY STUDENTS WERE PEACEFUL WITH THEM, THERE WERE SOME INCIDENTS WHERE WATER BOTTLES AND OTHER OBJECTS WERE BEING THROWN. ALSO ANOTHER GROUP, A GROUP THAT BLOCKED THE INTERSECTION OFF-CAMPUS THAT CREATED MAJOR DISRUPTIONS, POLICE ORDERING THEM TO LEAF, JUST A LOT OF MOVING PARTS ASU ADMIN USC D ADMINISTRATION TRYING TO CREATE SOME SORT OF ORDER AND BREAK IT UP, SO FAR THEIR EFFORTS HAVE IN THE BEEN FULLY SUCCESSFUL. YOU CAN SEE WHERE PEOPLE ARE LINED UP, THAT IS WHERE THE POLICE LINE IS, OFFICERS ARE NOT LETTING PEOPLE BACK INTO THE CENTER OF THE ALUMNI PARK. YOU HAVE A GROUP OF DOZENS OF PROTESTERS SURROUNDING THE CENTER, BUT THEN, WE HAVE ON LOOKERS WHO ARE HANGING ON THE STAIRS. RIGHT ON THE SIDE OF THE QUAD. THEY ARE LOOKING ON OR MILLING ABOUT. THE CROWD MUCH SMALLER THAN IT WAS, SO FAR, NOT NEARLY AS TENSE CHANTS STARTING NOW -- CHANTING OR FREE PALESTINE, TRYING TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD AS THIS CONTINUES ON. AND SHOWS NO SIGNS OF EBBING NOT FROM THIS PART OF THE CROWD. THAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW. BACK TO YOU. SUZIE: TOM, THROUGHOUT THE REPORT IN AFTERNOON TODAY YOU EMPHASIZED THE CALM OF THE LAPD OFFICERS YOU HAVE BEEN COVERING MULTIPLE PROTESTS, ESPECIALLY ONES AFTER DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD DURING THE HEIGHT OF COVID, WHAT ARE DIFFERENCES THAT YOU NOTICED AMONG THE OFFICERS? REPORTER: THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION. COVERING GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS, THEY WERE ORDERLY TOO IN ONE THAT I COVERED. PEOPLE WERE FOCUSED ON THAT CAUSE. SO FOCUSED ON SPOTLIGHTING THE INJUSTICE THAT HAPPENED MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD. AND REALLY IT WAS IMPRESSIVE SHOW OF -- THEY MADE THEIR FEELING HEARD BUT NOT DESTRUCTIVE IT WAS FOCUSED. TODAY FOR THE MOST PART, A LOT WAS AS WELL, PROTESTERS, IN THE CENTER WE SHOWED THAT VIDEO THEY DID NOT RESIST, THERE WAS NO VIOLENCE BESIDES WHAT WE SAW A FEW MOMENTS OF PEOPLE THROWING OBJECTS. THE OFFICERS DON'T KNOW WHAT IS BEING THROWN AT THEM, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT LIQUIDS THEY ARE, WHO KNOWS. THANKFULLY IT DID NOT APPEAR ANY OF THEM WERE INJURED. WE'LL HAVE TO GET A FULL REPORT FROM LAPD, THEY ARE COMING IN HERE THEY WERE ASKED TO COME IN BY THE USC ADMINISTRATION. WHO WANTS TO CLEAR OUT THIS AREA, WHO THEY ARE PROBABLY TRYING NOT TO LET WHAT HAPPENED AT SAY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK PLAY OUT HERE ON THE USC CAMPUS, THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE AN ENCAMPMENT HERE IN THE CENTER OF THEIR CAMP CAMPUS OR TO BECOME AN ISSUE THAT DRAGS ON WHERE IT DISRUPTING CAMPUS LIFE. I COULD TELL YOU SPEAKING WITH SOME STUDENTS WHO SOME PASSING THROUGH, WERE A LITTLE MYSTIFIED AND UPSET THAT USC ADMINISTRATION SEEMED TO BE SHUTTING IT DOWN MAYBE TOO EARLY, THEY SHOULD HAVE LET STUDENTS PEAK THEIR H MINDS LONGER. ALLOW THEM TO PLAY OUT A LITTLE BIT LONGER. YOU KNOW, THE OFFICERS AGAIN SHOWING A LOT OF RESTRAINT, THEY REALLY WERE JUST FORMING LINES, COLLAPSING THE LINES TO BREAK UP THE CROWD AS MUCH AS THEY COULD. IT WAS A VERY EFFECTIVE AND ORDERLY OPERATION BY THE LAPD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE WHERE I WAS STANDING. IT SEEMED THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING THEY COULD NOT TO ENGAGE NEGATIVELY WITH THE CROWD, THEY ISSUED ORDERS THEY THEN GAVE THEM EXTRA TIME TO COMPLY WITH THE ORDERS AND THEN MADE MOVED IN AND MADE ARRESTS, IN TERMS OF LAPD PERFORMANCE, IT DID NOT SEEM THEY WERE TRYING TO ANTAGONIZE ANYONE, AND CROWD REACTING POSITIVELY, IN A ORDERLY FASHION, -- MOST OF THE PEOPLE WERE NOT YOU KNOW ENGAGING THE LAPD IN A WAY THAT WAS AGGRESSIVE. THERE WERE SOME, AGAIN WU SAW THIS. WE SAW -- AGAIN WE SAW THAT ON VIDEO, WE SAW PEOPLE SHOUTING. BUT REALLY, IN TERMS OF ORGANIZED PROTESTS IT IS ONE WHERE I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT HERE WANTED TO MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD. THEY WERE EFFECTIVE. WAS NOT VIOLENT AND WAS PEACEFUL. WE SEE CROWD REACTING RIGHT NOW, NOT SURE WHAT IS GOING, POLICE LINES ARE STILL THERE. I'M TRYING TO POP MY HEAD THROUGH HERE. THEY -- THE POLICE OFFICERS REMAIN OUT HERE. THEY WERE FACE-TO-FACE. I THINK THEY ARE MOVING SLOWLY, PUSHING FORWARD WE'VE SEEN THIS TACTIC BEFORE. HAS CROWD BACK OFF AND BACKING OFF. THEN, AS THEY DO THIS, AND CONTINUE, IT FORCES MORE PEOPLE TO KIND OF LEAVE AND DISPERSE. ONE MAJOR ISSUE TOO PROBLEM, ASSISTING USC AND LAPD IS THEY HAVE SHUT DOWN I BELIEVE WE HAVE REPORTED SHUT MANY ENTRANCES AND GATES TO NONSTUDENTS, AND ARE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHO IS LET IN. OFTEN TIMES WE SEE WITH SOCIAL MEDIA PEOPLE ARE POSTING INFORMATION THEN, THAT BRINGS A LOT OF OTHERS INTO THE AREA, THAT CAN GROW THE PROTESTS, MAKE THEM LARGER AS NIGHT GOES ON. THAT CAN SOMETIMES HAPPEN TOO. PEOPLE GET OFF WORK OR HEAR ABOUT THESE THINGS A ARE -- WHATNOT. WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT RIGHT NOW. WE'RE SEEING A VERY STATIC CROWD, ONE THAT I DON'T FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, ON THE GROUND HERE IS NOT GETTING LARGER BUT THEY ARE STICKING AROUND. THE QUESTION IS, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. WHAT DO POLICE DO THEN. CHAUNCY: TOM, SEEMS THAT THE CROWD ALSO CHANGING HERE. EARLIER THE GROUP WITH THEIR ARMS LINKED, WE KNOW A GOOD NUMBER OF THOSE FOLKS WERE ARRESTED. I AM LOOKING AT YOUR SHOT, SEEMS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE COMING AND GOING JUST LOOKING, WHAT IS RATIO YOU THINK NOW AS TO PROTESTERS VERSUS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST COMING TO SEE W WHAT IS GOING ON. REPORTER: THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION. I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT, RIGHT NOW IT IS MORE ACTIVE AND ENGAGED CROWD IN SENSE THEY ARE CHANTS, THEY ARE -- CHANTING AND NOT MOVING. THE CROWD WATCHING, I FEEL IS SMALLER. THAN IT WAS, NOT QUITE AS LARGE. THERE YOU HAVE IT. CHAUNCY: ALL RIGHT TOM THANK YOU FOR LATEST FROM YOUR VANTAGE POINT, WE'RE CONTINUING OUR LIVE TEAM COVERAGE WITH DESMOND SHAW. SUZIE: HE IS OVER THE SCENE IN SKYCAL OVER EXPOSITION PARK WITH A LOOK. REPORTER: WE'RE LOOKING AT LAPD, THEY ARE BREAKING DOWN THE SCENE, THIS IS WHERE THEY WERE EARLIER PROCESSING EVERYONE THAT WAS ARRESTED PUTTING THEM IN ZIP TIES HANDCUFFS AND THEY HAD A BUNCH OF WHITE CHAIRS, THEY HAVE PACKED UP THAT. WAGONS HAVE LEFT, AND IT LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE THEY ARE -- HAVE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE CAMPUS IN CUSTODY IS NOW BEEN TAKEN. YOU SEE A LOT OF OFFICERS WALKING BACK TO THEIR STATION OVER ON VERMONT. I'LL WIDEN OUT. THEY WILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A BRISK WALK FROM THE CENTER OF THE CAMPUS TO VERMONT AVENUE, VERMONT NORTH OF EXPOSITION, CLOSE TO 36TH STREET, THAT IS WHERE THEY HAD A LOT OF -- BASICALLY THEIR COMMAND CENTER THERE ARE FIRE ENGINES AND PARAMEDICS AND AMBULANCES IF NEED BE. BUT IT WAS NOT THE CASE, DESPITE TEMPERS BLARING AT TIMES, WITH WATER BOTTLES THROWN AT LAPD, I HAVE TO ECHO WHAT TOM SAID, LAPD NOT ONLY DID THEY HANDLE THIS VERY DELICATELY, THEY REALLY WERE JUST KIND OF REACTIONARY WHEN THEY HAD TO BE. IF SOMEONE SHOVED THEM, THEY WOULD SHOVE BACK, IF A WATER BOTTLE WAS THROWN IN THEIR DIRECTION, THEY MADE AN ABOUT-FACE, THEIR SHIELDS READY, THEY HAD ANTIRIOT GEAR AS WELL, WE DID NOT SEE ANYONE STRUCK OR ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF PROTOCOL, WE WERE ALL WATCHING VERY CLOSELY. THEY ARE BREAKING DOWN THAT SCENE. IT IS HARD TO SEE UNDER THE ALUMNI PARK WHERE IT IS NOT WELL LIT, THERE ARE STILL QUITE A FEW OFFICERS IN THE TREES HERE, MAKING SURE NO ONE TRIES TO COME BACK INTO THE PARK AND START IT ALL OVER AGAIN. AND QUITE A FEW FOLKS, A MIXTURE OF PROTESTERS AND PASSERS BY THAT HAVE INTERRUPTED WHENEVER THEY WERE DOING TO CHECK IT OUT. WE'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE HOW THAT PLAYS OUT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT, YOU COULD STILL CALL IT A PROTEST TO A DEGREE, PROTEST FOR A TIME SEVERAL HOURS WAS BLOCKING JEFFERSON AND HOOVER ON NORTH END OF CAMPUS, DISRUPTING AFTERNOON RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC, THEY WENT MOBILE, MARCHED AROUND USC, STUCK TO THE SIDEWALKS MAYBE DIS PURSED AT SOME POINT WELL WEST OF THE UNIVERSITY. SO, EVERYONE WHO GATHERED HERE AROUND LAPD THEY HAVE DISBURSED AS WELL, I'M OUR IF LAPD LEFT IF EVERYONE WOULD LEAVE OR IF THEY WOULD TRY TO COME BACK TO THE PARK. OR WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY WERE TO LEAVE, IT LOOKINGS LIKE UNWE'RE PERHAPS IN BREAKING DOWN PROCESS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH DEZ, HOPEFULLY IT REMAINS PEACEFUL ON CAMPUS OF USC. >> YOU CAN STICK WITH KCAL NEWS AND KCALNEWS.COM WE'RE MONITORING L

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