Police clash with protesters at UCLA
Tense scenes continue at UCLA, where police were seen to clash with protesters just before 2 a.m. (5 a.m. ET).
Aerial video footage also showed police apprehend at least one person outside the encampment, near where hundreds of protesters have gathered to support the encampment, outside an area closed off to the public.
Police have formed a line to prevent any more protesters from entering the encampment area in Royce Quad — but aerial footage also appeared to show officers pulling back from the encampment area and walking away after the scuffles broke out.
An order for protesters to leave the area or face arrest was repeated over a loudspeaker.
Police arrest 90 at Dartmouth protest encampment after repeated warnings
At least 90 people were arrested in the early hours of this morning at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, police said, for alleged offenses including criminal trespass and resisting arrest.
Those arrested include Dartmouth students and people with no affiliation to the college.
Hanover Police Department said in a statement at 1.30 a.m. that protesters had been warned that no tents would be allowed and that once they were erected there were multiple warnings from college staff and a dispersal order from police.
Some chose to leave, but many stayed, police said, and multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the resulting operation.
Hundreds of sympathizers gather to support UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the UCLA protest encampment to offer their support early today, after police cordoned off the quad that saw scenes of violence in the early hours yesterday.
The pro-Palestinian supporters gathered on the Janss Steps that lead to Royce Quad, where several hundred have defied police orders to leave their encampment.
They chanted “peaceful protest” and “shame on you, LAPD” as police officers moved into the encampment area.
A line of police is preventing them from going further into the campus.
LA city controller warns UCLA and city leader to protect students
UCLA was urged to do more to protect students, as protesters defied repeated warnings to leave the campus in the early hours today.
LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia, who is currently on the scene at UCLA, said on X: “There is a large police presence from multiple law enforcement agencies after outside mobs attacked peaceful student protesters last night with no one protecting them.
“Students now face police. We urge ULCA & City leaders to protect students, not do more harm.”
Graffiti and placards line the walls of UCLA
Protesters wearing traditional keffiyeh scarves around their faces stand beside graffiti daubed walls inside the encampment set up by pro-Palestinian students on the UCLA campus last night.Two protesters sleep beneath a wall covered with placards on the campus, protesting Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza.
A veteran activist joined Columbia protesters. Police call her a ‘professional agitator’
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As pro-Palestinian student protesters took over a Columbia University building early Tuesday, one person in the crowd outside stood out — a gray-haired woman who delivered orders to young people helping to barricade a door.
“Tie it right to the lock,” she told two masked protesters holding zipties, according to footage posted on social media. The protesters did as they were told, using the ties on a metal table pressed against the door of Hamilton Hall.
“Let’s give them a little cover,” the older woman said to the crowd. “Cameras back. Cameras back.”
The woman was not a Columbia University student or faculty member. She in fact has no known affiliation to the school at all.
She is a 63-year-old veteran activist named Lisa Fithian, or what the New York Police Department described as a “professional agitator.”
Large crowd still seen at UCLA
A large crowd of people could still be seen at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles tonight, hours after news crews heard police orders to disperse, helicopter video showed.
There have no reports of arrests on the campus, where there also was some distance away a pro-Palestinian protest encampment.
Police were seen on campus. The Daily Bruin student newspaper reports some police were in riot gear.
Last night, there was violence at the protest after what the UCLA chancellor described as an attack on pro-Palestinian protest by a band of instigators.
Counter-protesters threw fireworks, tear gas at encampment, UCLA student says
Student journalist at UCLA, Dylan Winward, detailed the moment counter-protesters threw fireworks and tear gas at the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. Winward said counter-protesters did “not appear to be student led.”
Officers close in on UCLA encampment
Police stage on the UCLA campus near an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Los Angeles late last night.
