LOS ANGELES – Hundreds of police officers in riot gear swarmed on May 2 the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California, Los Angeles, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling their encampment.
After massing around the campus for hours, officers eventually moved through the area in lines, holding batons. Hundreds of other pro-Palestinian activists who assembled outside the tent city jeered police with shouts of “Shame on you!”. Some were banging on drums and waving Palestinian flags as officers marched onto the campus grounds. Many wore the traditional Palestinian scarves called keffiyehs.
The confrontation went on for two or three hours into the early morning of May 1 before police restored order. The police action on the evening of May 1 came a day after police in New York City arrested pro-Palestinian activists who occupied a building at Columbia University, and removed a tent city from the campus of the Ivy League school.
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