Posted on 05/04/2024 11:32:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA ended in the precise manner university leaders initially sought to avoid — with a massive police force arresting more than 200 protesters in the dead of night.
When the encampment sprung up on Royce Quad last Thursday, April 25, the university envisioned a world in which students could peacefully display their message on the large green field while students shuttled to class nearby.
Instead, they faced a situation where protesters allegedly blocked student access to classes, counter-protesters violently attacked the encampment, and leaders across the nation condemned the university’s failure to keep students safe.
So how did the situation spiral so out of control?
The simple answer is violence and a lack of action from UCLA to maintain order around the encampment.
“For all the school’s pretense of student safety we’ve experienced an unprecedented amount of violence and hatred while they stood by,” said a student protest leader on Tuesday, who requested anonymity due to safety concerns.
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you cannot stop people that WANT confrontation...
The administrators are NOT the ones paying to attend school there. HOW DARE THEY deny students the right to attend classes in a nonviolent atmosphere.
Fire the lot of them. LIBERAL POSs.
.....a higher rate of velocity of those 4’ long police batons on selective student/terrorist heads would help long term and short term.
The American Kristallnacht.
“The American Kristallnacht.”
Hardly. More like a spanking from daddy.
From reading the on-site reports, it looks like first the Palestinian fascists were stomped on by patriots who effectively stripped the protestors of their plywood barriers. Then the cops moved in with zip-ties and pest removal services.
IF SO-—GOOD.
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