The police entered the campus of UCLA University in Los Angeles. A CNN crew present at the scene saw the police enter the place where the pro-Palestinian demonstrators had gathered. Hours earlier, police had deemed the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus to be an illegal gathering, a source told CNN. The TV station claims to have seen members of the police shooting what appear to be rubber bullets. Then, CNN’s Josh Campbell reported that the camp was cleared and the police identified the protesters and put them on buses.
Sale a 209 the number of people arrested by the Los Angeles police during the clearing of the pro-Gaza encampment on the UCLA campus. This was reported by law enforcement sources cited by NBCnews, who did not specify how many students and teachers were among those arrested. According to the American broadcaster 1,900 people have been arrested across the United States since the protests began in universities once morest the war in Gaza. Arrests that occurred in at least 60 universities and colleges that are participating in the movement in solidarity with the Palestinian cause and why ask that scientific and financial ties between the universities and Israel be suspended
Joe Biden spoke for the first time. The law and freedom of speech “must be upheld”: “peaceful protests are protected in America, vandalism and violent protests are not”, says the president, breaking the silence on pro-Gaza protests on American campuses. “The right to protest does not mean the right to chaos,” he underlined. “Vandalism, violations of private property, broken windows, shutting down campuses, canceling classes and diplomas, intimidation and threats, none of these are peaceful protests,” the president said once more. “There is the right to protest, but not the right to create chaos,” he added, underlining that “we are not an authoritarian state that silences people and represses dissent, but we are not a lawless country either.”
Biden said he was once morest proposals put forward by Republicans to send the National Guard to repress pro-Gaza protests on American campuses. After his brief speech today at the White House, Biden did not take the journalists’ questions but limited himself to answering “no” to a reporter who shouted to him, as he left the room, if he thought an intervention by the National Guard was appropriate.
Meanwhile, protests continue in US universities with various universities involved in demonstrations in support of the Palestinian cause and once morest Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip.
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2024-05-03 07:41:36
