Protests at UC Irvine escalated Wednesday afternoon after demonstrators surrounded a lecture hall on campus.
A protest at the University of California, Irvine escalated Wednesday afternoon after demonstrators surrounded a lecture hall on the Southern California campus.What happened before police arrived?The administration ordered students to stay away from the Physical Sciences Quad, the location of a pro-Palestinian encampment, after several hundred protesters entered the lecture hall at about 2:30 p.m. The demonstrators then surrounded the building.
Police detained numerous people, some of whom were faculty members. Protesters condemned police as they were being led away.'They are destroying the campus and undoing a democratic, peaceful protest. Shame on them!' one protester, identifying herself as a tenured professor in the global studies department, shouted. 'We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy. These young people are going to be the people who are going to pay the price for these horrible decisions.
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