Protesters briefly occupy building, set up new encampment but disperse when police threaten arrests.
On the day UCLA Chancellor Gene Block testified before Congress about efforts to combat antisemitism on campus, pro-Palestinian activists rekindled protests on campus and briefly built a new encampment on Thursday, May 23.Protesters used tables, metal fences, plywood and other materials to block off a section of campus between Kerckhoff and Moore halls, a main walkway used by students traversing the Westwood campus.
At about 1 p.m., police made their way into the barricaded encampment area, and the plaza appeared to have been largely vacated. The group that was gathered outside the encampment then backed away from police and began marching en masse across the campus. Earlier, organizers held a rally on the steps of Murphy Hall, but police made their way onto the scene, winding in between the protesters and the structure. Outside the hall, protesters stood chanting slogans and blocking Charles E. Young Drive.
Campus security took positions around the burgeoning encampment, and eventually university police were joined by officers from the Santa Monica and Los Angeles police departments, along with some Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies. The move came weeks after the police agency and some administrators were criticized over their handling of demonstrations — key among the complaints was the slow law-enforcement response when violence broke out at the encampment the night of April 30 and continued into the next morning.
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