The pro-Palestinian encampment that had been set up for weeks on the University of California-Irvine campus has been dismantled and was completely cleared Thursday morning after tensions grew high the night prior, resulting in evacuation orders and arrests.
While the encampment has been cleared, all classes will be held remotely on Thursday following the night of unrest. Protesters began rallying around the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall around 2:30 p.m. near the encampment as they demanded that the university divest from Israel over the Hamas war.
I was prepared to allow a peaceful encampment to exist on the campus without resorting to police intervention, even though the encampment violated our policies and the existence of the encampment was a matter of great distress to other members of our community. I communicated that if there were violations of our rules we would address them through the normal administrative policies of the university and not through police action.
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