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Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with police at UCLA campus

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Agence France-Presse

<div><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus broke out on Monday. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aerial footage carried by local television showed protesters facing off with a line of riot police and several arrests being made. Local media reported that hundreds of protesters began marching through campus early on Monday afternoon, with some carrying mock coffins featuring Palestinian flags. The Los Angeles Police Department then ordered protesters to leave the campus, after which scuffles ensued.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/5/2/aerial-video-pro-palestinian-protesters-at-ucla-after-dispersal-order-given-1017" id="isPasted">AERIAL VIDEO: Pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA after dispersal order given</a><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/5/20/biden-tells-graduating-students-i-hear-gaza-protests-1028">Biden tells graduating students &#x27;I hear&#x27; Gaza protests</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The UCLA campus has seen pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the past few months. In early May, police dismantled a Palestinian solidarity protest camp.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Protests over Israel&#x27;s conduct during the war in Gaza have led to student clashes with each other and law enforcement across US  college campuses in recent months.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">On Monday, thousands of University of California academic workers who went on strike at six campuses protesting administrators&#x27; response to pro-Palestinian protests returned to the job under court order, but their union has vowed more protests to come.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/2024/5/24/kim-atienza-backs-daughter-eliana-who-joined-pro-palestine-protest-1432" id="isPasted">Kim Atienza backs daughter who joined pro-Palestine protest</a><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/2024/6/3/kim-atienza-s-daughter-speaks-up-on-pro-palestine-protest-1730">Kim Atienza&#x27;s daughter speaks up on pro-Palestine protest</a></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>(Production: Scott Dill)</strong></span></div><div><br/></div><div><strong><br/></strong></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus broke out on Monday. </p>

Clashes between police and pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus broke out on Monday.