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Update 2024-07-30
2024-05-02 ‘Their Blood Is on Gene Block’: UCLA Students Injured in Violent Police Raid Los Angeles police wearing riot gear launched a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Thursday, using flash bangs and firing impact munitions at students demanding an end to their university’s complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Video footage posted to social media by reporters present at the scene shows officers firing multiple “less lethal” munitions and sound-concussive devices at student demonstrators as they closed in on the encampment, which UCLA’s leadership has declared unlawful. Police reportedly arrested dozens of students as they advanced on the encampment. “They’d rather shoot kids than stop this genocide,” said one observer.
Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, told the university’s student newspaper early Thursday that police officers “violently dragged” students from the Gaza solidarity encampment and that some demonstrators were “visibly injured.” “Their blood is on Gene Block and the UC administration’s hands for a series of catastrophic decisions over the last two days,” said Blair, referring to UCLA’s chancellor. “It did not need to be this way.” https://www.commondreams.org/ucla-police-crackdown
2024-05-01 Pro-Genocide Mob Attacks Nonviolent Encampment, Beats Students at UCLA Encampment organizers called the assault “nothing less than a horrifying, despicable act of terror.”
A pro-Israel mob violently attacked a Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles overnight Tuesday, hurling fireworks at the structure and beating demonstrators as campus security and city police stood by.
Los Angeles Times higher education journalist Teresa Watanabe reported that members of the pro-Israel mob used explicitly genocidal language as they ripped down encampment barriers, yelling, “Second Nakba!”—a reference to the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in 1948. https://www.commondreams.org/news/pro-genocide-mob-ucla
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