The confrontation lasted two or three hours early Wednesday morning before police restored order. Later, a spokesman for California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized as “unacceptable” the campus police’s “limited and delayed response” to the riots.
UCLA officials said the campus, which has nearly 52,000 students, including undergraduate and graduate students, would remain closed except for limited operations on Thursday and Friday.
Wednesday night’s police raid came a day after New York City police arrested pro-Palestinian activists who occupied a building at Columbia University and removed an encampment from the Ivy League school’s campus.
Police arrested a total of about 300 people in Columbia and City College of New York, Mayor Eric Adams said. Many of those detained were accused of trespassing and criminal damage.
The clashes at UCLA and New York are part of the largest demonstration of student activism in the US since the anti-racism protests and marches of 2020.
(Reporting by Lisa Richwine and Omar Younis in Los Angeles; additional reporting by Brad Brooks, Nichola Groom, Maria Tsvetkova, David Swanson, Jonathan Allen, Brendan O’Brien, Rich McKay and Dan Trotta)
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