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Campus protests live updates: 'Horrific violence' on UCLA campus after police clear New York protest - BBC News Campus protests live updates: 'Horrific violence' on UCLA campus after police clear New York protest - BBC News
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After last night’s police raid in Columbia University, now the spotlight's on UCLA in California, where clashes have broken out between the two rival groups of protesters.
Earlier, the focus of this page was on police's forced removal of protesters who were occupying a building at Columbia University in New York. That clash was between police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Let’s look at what we know so far:
But what we're seeing happening on the other side of the country at UCLA appears to be violence between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups. The university's vice-chancellor Mary Osako says "horrific acts of violence occurred at the encampment tonight” and that law enforcement has been called
Some context: these tensions have been building for some time, as both sides have mounted protests on the Los Angeles campus in recent days. What's triggered this sudden violence between both sides is not yet clear. Tensions have been building, and it's not clear what caused the overnight outbreak. Footage online appears to show people throwing things at the pro-Palestinian camp, and fireworks being set off
Security guards at first were just observing the clashes but not stepping in to stop them, the Los Angeles Times reports. The university said police had been called. The Los Angeles mayor's office says the city's police department is responding to the university's request for help. We have seen footage of police appearance at the campus
Earlier, at Columbia University in New York, a number of of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in a raid on Hamilton Hall, an academic building that was taken over by activists
Police said they had cleared all the protesters from Hamilton Hall, after the university authorities authorised the raid
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