A video published on Wednesday night (1st) showed students blocking the path of police on the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) campus following an order to disperse protesters at pro-Palestine protests.
Unable to pass, the police officers turned and left.
Lines of police in tactical gear spread across the UCLA campus, adjacent to a complex of tents occupied by crowds of protesters, in anticipation of the attack, a day after the university declared the camp illegal.
Hundreds of other pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside the tent city taunted the police with songs, some playing drums and waving Palestinian flags, as officers marched onto the campus grounds. Many of the protesters wore traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarves.
Students have gathered or set up camps at dozens of schools across the U.S. in recent days, expressing opposition to Israel's war in the Gaza Strip and demanding that schools divest from companies that support the Israeli government. Many of the universities called the police to quell the protests.
Some 1,200 people in southern Israel were killed in the October 7 attack, but the Israeli retaliatory strike killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians, according to data from the Gaza Health Ministry, destroyed much of the enclave's infrastructure and created a humanitarian crisis.
See the video:
(With information from Paul Vieira, Nathan Frandino, Sandra Stojanovic, Omar Younis, Rollo Ross and Lion Schellerer)
Source: CNN Brasil
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