LOS ANGELES — Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole. The suspect, identified as Edan On, 18, was taken into custody on May 23 in the...
Police officers stand guard, on the day pro-Palestinian activists' set up an encampment, at the University of California, Los Angeles on May 23.LOS ANGELES — Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles , police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole.
The man, who police said had no affiliation with UCLA, was reported by local media to be a Beverly Hills High School student. The masked assailants, described by university officials and police as "instigators", stormed the protest site with clubs and poles, sparking a pitched skirmish in which both sides traded blows and doused each other with pepper spray.The confrontation dragged on for at least three hours into the early morning of May 1 before order was restored.
Earlier this week, UCLA's police chief, John Thomas, was removed from his post pending an outside review of campus security and public safety protocols, university officials said.But the UCLA chapter of the Jewish campus organisation Hillel said in a statement that the mob was comprised of "fringe members of the off-campus Jewish community.
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