After a massive law enforcement operation cleared an encampment built by pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA, the university's Dickson Plaza was left strewn with mangled tents, plastic buckets and other debris.
ByAfter a massive law enforcement operation cleared out a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, the university's Dickson Plaza was left strewn with mangled tents, plastic buckets and debris.built by pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA, the university's Dickson Plaza on Thursday was left strewn with mangled tents, plastic buckets and other debris.
Chaotic scenes played out early Thursday when officers in riot gear surged against a crowd of demonstrators. Hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave, some forming human chains as police fired flash-bangs to break up the crowds. Later Thursday morning, workers removed the barricades and dismantled the protesters' fortified encampment. Bulldozers scooped up bags of trash and tents.
California Highway Patrol officers poured into the Westwood campus by the hundreds early Thursday. Wearing face shields and protective vests, they held their batons out to separate them from demonstrators, who wore helmets and gas masks and chanted: "You want peace. We want justice."
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