Groups clash over pro-Palestinian barrier blocking access to UCLA

>> ALL RIGHT GINGER, THANK YOU WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS FROM OVERNIGHT POLICE CALLED IN TO REDUCE TENSIONS ON THE CAMPUS OF UCLA WHEN COUNTER PROTESTERS TRIED TO BREACH A BARRIER WHERE AN ENCAMPMENT HAS BEEN SET KTLA SCORELESS HERRERA IS LIVE IN WESTWOOD WITH DETAILS CARLOS GOOD MORNING. >> AND GOOD MORNING AND A GROUP OF PRO ISRAEL GROUP JUST DISPERSE A SHORT TIME AGO THEY WERE WAVING AND ISRAELI FLAG USING THEIR MEGAPHONES AND PLAYING LOUD MUSIC YOU'RE NEAR THE A PRO-PALESTINIAN CABIN YOU SEE THAT IS NOW SURROUNDED BY A WOODEN BOARDS. THIS OF AS THE UCLA POLICE AND CAMPUS SECURITY GUARDS LOOKED ON THE MONITOR THE SITUATION FOLLOWING A SCUFFLE THAT BROKE OUT. JUST HOURS AGO. THIS WAS THE SCENE LAST NIGHT AS NEARLY 60 COUNTER PROTESTERS TRIED TO BREACH THE ENTRANCE AT THE ENCAMPMENT IN DICKSON PLAZA AROUND MIDNIGHT, THOSE IN THE CABINET, PUSHING BACK DENYING THEM ACCESS. THE CONFRONTATION BEGAN AT AROUND 11:30PM BETWEEN HOW LIBRARIAN KAITLIN HALL AFTER COUNTER PROTESTERS USED A MEGAPHONE TO SHOUT AND PLAYED MUSIC IN FRONT OF THE ENCAMPMENTS BARRICADE EARLIER IN THE NIGHT, THE CONFRONTATION ESCALATED BETWEEN BOTH GROUPS AS SEVERAL ITEMS WERE THROWN AROUND AROUND 6 UNIVERSITY OF POLICE OR UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA. POLICE OFFICERS IN RIOT GEAR RESPONDED TO THE SCUFFLE. THERE ARE ALSO SECURITY GUARDS WHO RESPONDED THEY USE THEIR BIKES TO CREATE A BARRIER. THE FOREST COUNTER PROTESTERS TO MOVE BACK AND IT APPEARS THAT AT ALL AND DID WITHOUT ANY INJURIES. ARREST ALL COMES AFTER MINOR SCUFFLES BROKE OUT INVOLVING BOTH GROUPS OVER THE WEEKEND THAT UCLA TO STEP UP SECURITY AROUND THE PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT THAT HAS GROWN TO APPROXIMATELY 50 TENTS SURROUNDED BY WOODEN METAL FENCING DEMONSTRATORS HAVE APPOINTED GUARDS TO BLOCK ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC AND THE MEDIA. THEY'RE CALLING FOR A HALT TO THE TOW TODAY CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS ALONG WITH DEMANDING UCLA DIVEST ALL INTERESTING NEWS RIO. A MOVE THAT THE UNIVERSITY SO FAR AS THE POST'S. >> OUR ENCAMPMENT IS >> IS YOUR TO REALLY DOESN'T WHAT'S HAPPENING IN GAZA. >> IN A STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS SAID THEY ARE HEARTBROKEN BY THE VIOLENCE SAYING QUOTE AS AN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION, WE STAND FIRMLY FOR THE IDEA THAT EVEN WHEN WE DISAGREE WE MUST STILL ENGAGE RESPECTFULLY AND RECOGNIZE ONE ANOTHER'S HUMANITY. WE ARE DISMAYED THAT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS INSTEAD OF CHOSE TO JEOPARDIZE THE PHYSICAL SAFETY. OF THE COMMUNITY AND NOW REMAINS UNCLEAR HOW LONG THE UNIVERSITY WILL ALLOW THIS ENCAMPMENT TO STAY IN THIS AREA WE HEAR FROM SID OF PROTESTERS WHO SAY THEY'RE GOING TO BE HERE UNTIL ALL OF THEIR

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Published: Tue Apr 30 2024