Chief John Thomas learned that he'd been reassigned Monday. The move comes weeks after the police force faced criticism for its response to attacks at a pro-Palestinian encampment.
Three weeks after law enforcement cleared a massive pro-Palestinian encampment from the UCLA campus and arrested more than 200 people, the university's police chief has been removed from his job and reassigned.Chief John Thomas confirmed the move late Tuesday in a text message to the Daily Bruin campus newspaper."There's been a lot going on and I learned late yesterday that I'm temporarily reassigned from my duties as chief," Thomas told the paper.
Meanwhile, the chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce sent a letter last week demanding that the UC system turn over all communications and documents relating to alleged campus antisemitism since Oct. 7, the date of the Hamas attack on Israel.University of California President Michael Drake said the university system has begun an independent investigation of the UCLA response to the violence.
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