LOS ANGELES: Supporters of Israel attacked a pro-Palestinian protest camp at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) on Wednesday (May 1), while New York's mayor said a
Counter-protesters clash with pro-Palestinian protesters at an encampment on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles , on May 1, 2024. Witness footage from UCLA, verified by Reuters, showed people wielding sticks or poles to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were deployed to the campus.
As student rallies have spread to dozens of schools across the US in recent days expressing opposition to Israel's war in Gaza, Footage from the early hours showed mostly male counter-demonstrators, many of them masked and some apparently older than students, throwing objects and trying to smash or pull down the wooden and steel barriers erected to shield the encampment."They were coming up here and just violently attacking us," said pro-Palestinian protester Kaia Shah, a researcher at UCLA.
Police said they had responded to a request from UCLA to restore order and maintain public safety"due to multiple acts of violence" within the encampment. "Students have a right to protest and free speech is a cornerstone of our society ... It was external actors who hijacked peaceful protests and influenced students to escalate."
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