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California colleges are giving student protesters 'interim suspension' notices, a disciplinary process typically reserved for the most serious misconduct. Student protesters face same suspensions ...
On May 15, 2024, a crackdown on a pro-Palestine encampment at University of California, Irvine resulted in an occupation of the UC Irvine Science Building by the protesters. [1] UCI police put out a mutual aid call and received a response from at least 16 law enforcement agencies from around Orange County. [2]
The protests, which included confrontations between students and clashes with police at some of those campuses, have led to nearly 3,000 arrests, according to an NBC News tally.
On May 15, members of United Auto Workers Local 4811, the union representing 48,000 graduate students on 10 campuses in the University of California system voted to authorize a strike because the university unfairly change policies and discriminated against students who were exercising their right to free speech and created an unsafe work environment by allowing attacks on protesters.
On April 25, 2024, a student protest began at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to protest the administration's investments in Israel. The occupation, self-titled as the 'Palestine Solidarity Encampment', [5] was a part of pro-Palestine protests on university campuses campaigning for divestment from Israel. [6]
The protest kicked off around 2:30 p.m., when university officials said a group of "several hundred" protesters entered the campus and "began surrounding and ultimately barricaded" the Physical ...
At USC, police in riot gear arrested 93 pro-Palestinian protestors, while UCLA sent in observers who kept their hands off students in a peaceful encampment. At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off.
Taylor Gee, a 30-year-old pro-Palestinian protester and UCLA law student, said the police operation on Thursday felt "especially galling" to many protesters given the slow police response a night ...