Tons of of California Excessive Patrol officers converged onto the UCLA anti-Israel encampment exterior Royce Corridor at round 3 a.m. Thursday.
The officers, wearing full-body riot gear, had been met by a big wall of protesters holding makeshift shields.
The 2 facet got here nose to nose at a staircase that leads as much as the quad the place the protesters arrange an unlawful encampment on the college’s campus.
Some protesters had been armed with umbrellas and sporting building onerous hats waving flashlights in direction of the officers in an try and blind them.
After being met with resistance from the protesters close to a staircase that led to the quad, some officers made their means across the constructing in try and get into one other the encampment.
Simply after 3 a.m. the officers started breaking into the wall of protesters, stealing the shields and forcing their means in whereas armed with batons.
The second, smaller crew of regulation enforcement seemingly negotiated with the protesters and broke down the barricades and partitions that created the makeshift encampment.
The protesters had been then seen strolling away from the world with their arms raised within the air.
Different demonstrators had been seen being detained because the officers made their means into the guts of the tent encampment.
