Counter-protesters attack pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA

[David__77]

Law enforcement was noticeably absent when violence erupted on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles late Tuesday night between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

Dozens of counter-protestors, many wearing white masks and flags over their shoulders, arrived around 10:45 p.m. and attempted to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has overtaken Royce Quad since last Thursday. The agitators lobbed fireworks at the encampment and set off what may have been bear or pepper spray.

Demonstrators on the pro-Palestinian side used umbrellas to shield themselves, and skirmishes broke throughout the night out as counter-protesters attempted to wrestle away wood pallets, plywood and metal fencing from the encampment.

UCLA campus police along with medical personnel showed up briefly before retreating, KTLA’s John Fenoglio reported. The Los Angeles Police Department had not responded as of 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.

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https://ktla.com/news/local-news/pro-palestinian-encampment-at-ucla-gains-ground-as-demonstrations-rage-on/amp/

[Nixie]

1. Oh noes! Not counter-protestors! Now protestors are so

very bad no good if they're counter protestors.

[womanofthehills]

9. Screaming "second nakba"

Pro-Israel counterprotestors started tearing down @UCLA encampment barriers and screamed "Second nakba!" referring to the mass displacement & dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Per @latimes @safinazzal on the scene with another video:

Link to tweet

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[Nixie]

14. See post no.1

[David__77]

17. A call for more ethnic cleansing.

[Sympthsical]

2. Is this not glorious protest?

I was reliably informed all week that this sort of thing was glorious protest just like the 1960s.

Did that change? Hrm. Weird how things change like that.

[David__77]

3. Protesters were often assaulted by counter-protesters in the 1960s.

[Sympthsical]

4. Or maybe the oppressed are rising up

Because they're tired of the racist abuse?

Isn't that how this goes? C'mon now. We can't change logic six months in. That would be strange.

[malaise]

5. Anyone who doesn't think Smelvis, his son in law,

Roger Stone and Bannon aren’t involved isn’t thinking.

[tritsofme]

10. Yes, along with Hamas and their useful idiot sympathizers, are all tools of Putin. That is all.

[malaise]

12. Hmmmmmmmmbut no Mosador IDF. OK

😂

[tritsofme]

13. Putin is an ally of Hamas. That is all.

[BannonsLiver]

18. +1

Funny how the bumper sticker logic just falls apart when challenged. That is all.

[Beastly Boy]

11. Several DUers suggested just that when the Columbia protests just began.

It appears we now have consensus on this issue.

It heartens me to see consensus among DUers on at least one aspect of the protests slowly emerging.

[FHRRK]

15. I am not typically a tin foil hat type of guy

But watching it on the local news last night it did seem strange.

A whole log to Khaki paints wearing losers running around. Fireworks being shot into the encampment and zero presense of LE on the lawn.

[Chautauquas]

6. In this gun culture we live in

I'm surprised these conflicts haven't turned more lethal. Hoping they don't but it seems likely.

[Ace Rothstein]

7. The UCLA administration needs to take some blame here.

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Allowing the encampment to go on as it did, basically setting up their own securoty roadblocks barring students from getting to class made it inevitable something like this would happen.

[sarisataka]

8. I believe in modern terminology we should say

The protesters are being "inconvenienced" by the counter protesters.


Seriously however, this is not acceptable. Vigilante violence is not a solution; the counter protesters whether students/agitators/Russian agents have no right to attack those protesting on campus.

[mopinko]

16. sounds like a story an old hippie friend tells about protesting a kkk march.

back in the 60’s. the cops lined up in front of the hippies as the klan got close, but when they got there, the cops disappeared. they got their asses kicked.