LOS ANGELES, May 23 — The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles has been removed from his post three weeks after campus officials came under fire for their...
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John Thomas, who was formally named head of the UCLA police force in January after a year as interim chief, has been “reassigned temporarily, pending an examination of our security processes,” Vice Chancellor Mary Osako said in a statement on Wednesday. By all accounts the confrontation continued for at least three hours, into the early morning of May 1, before police moved in and restored order. No arrests were immediately made.
The two days of disturbances thrust UCLA to the centre of mounting weeks of tensions at dozens of US college campuses, where protests of Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza led to students clashing with each other and with law enforcement. Days after the UCLA upheaval, university officials said a panel of outside experts would conduct a broad review of campus security operations and law enforcement’s response to the incident. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block announced a separate investigation to identify and arrest perpetrators of the melee.
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