What’s left of UCLA encampment

Hundreds of protesters were arrested early today as #police moved in to clear the pro-Palestinian encampment at #UCLA, pulling down barricades and tents during a tense standoff. #Protest
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[@divadlived4892]

Who paid for all that stuff??? College kids are typically broke.

[@Sophon-fj4fu]

Chinese TikTok

[@williamdavid9272]

Protesting is a big business

[@robertschuler850]

They should order those 100 arrested individuals to clean their crap up!!

[@peachesjohnson9387]

Thank ya

[@jenniferngure1136]

Absolutely 💯

[@dewyox]

Make them clean it up part of jail sentence

[@ericluchinski]

Do you think you'd stay and clean up when terrorists in riot gear and weapons were chasing you out? Common sense, people

[@rosamunoz2529]

@@ericluchinski Make them clean it up part of jail sentence Make them clean it up part of jail sentence Make them clean it up part of jail sentence !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aphilipdent]

Students yes. all others jail.

[@aphilipdent]

@@ericluchinski So where do you live? let's see how forgiving you would be if a bunch of people camped on your yard and refused to leave. Students couldn't get the education they pay for. Campuses all over negotiated with only this result.

[@carolloye3700]

@@ericluchinskithe only terrorists there were the unruly brats who took over the area and left the mess.

[@VincentPSmithSr]

...these are the same people protesting for the environment as well.....

[@av2245]

Lefties only care about taking over the assets of what other people worked hard to get. They will lie and cheat to get it. You actually think they care about the environment? lol

[@dandabear118]

And against tuition hikes

[@richardboone1961]

Disgraceful

[@ericluchinski]

Do you think you'd stay and clean up when terrorists in riot gear and weapons were chasing you out? Common sense, people

[@dudeguybroham]

@@ericluchinskiterrorists? Cleaning up trash is not a terrorist move. Ask Israel.

[@dardar9655]

in California someone commonsense balls - this must be a hoax

[@jenette16]

What did you expect? This is typical of their behavior.

[@chickadee7659]

No wonder we are hated & laughed at by other countries. Comedy Central here

[@jubal1794]

Other countries are 1000% on board with the genocide wdym?

[@jenniferngure1136]

Yes. Laughing at you from Africa😅😅😅.

[@kolpants]

2000/32000 students there to major in activism. what a great university to be in.

[@ilfyf]

Arab countries are afraid that Sinwar will be captured, as Israel is very close to capturing him, therefore they are inciting all the riots.

[@raywitte7354]

Looks like Gaza

[@neildegrassetyson1661]

Not enough rubble 😂

[@05350]

Now we know what makes Gaza look like this. The Pro-Palestinians! 😂

[@jameseddleman6944]

what? its not even remotely comparable... Are you sure you know what is going on in Gaza?

[@saviorvx1883]

@@jameseddleman6944 not yet, that was just a taste test ... idiots think they can win, when LAPD has been in exery riot from mlk-to now they all fail, stupid terrorists should actually study then maybe they'de actually accomplish something.. thnx to this dei is officially dead since ppl will relate this to this anti-ameria movements, theres a switch thats flipped in ppl

[@jenniferngure1136]

😂😂😂

[@deborahrainabotvinik3894]

Why don’t those thugs who made the mess clean it up or get them all to jail?

[@zmartin360]

What a mess

[@user-og5cx3ro9n]

They are all punks

[@bombpromises]

hamazis

[@ericluchinski]

Do you think you'd stay and clean up when terrorists in riot gear and weapons were chasing you out? Common sense, people

[@CheezburgerSub]

Huh? Use Google, youtube is censoring comments

[@daleg324]

Show why their assets should be seized to cover all costs.

[@HowardeRiley]

Dont people have something to do?

[@KAL5370]

How was this let to happen? Who allowed this?

[@Zzyzzyx]

The university allowed it, as did the state - because California's leaders are pro-terrorist.

[@av2245]

DEI is designed to do this. It is designed to ruin the country.

[@zackmclef1911]

Great job 👏

[@NeraBuffy]

Wouldn't mental asylums have been cheaper

[@nibblesmacdougals9212]

What a beautiful campus I'm thinking of going back to school for my MBA 😀

[@robertpearce4316]

You will be up set they cleaned it up

[@CPLWeeks]

Masters' in Basic Antisemitism?

[@pv3Hpv3p]

Can't help but see that a lot of those folks don't look college aged.

[@jubal1794]

Your point?

[@kiddadd]

​@@jubal1794 they may not actually be students

[@jubal1794]

@@kiddadd and?

[@pv3Hpv3p]

@@jubal1794 report truthfully on it. It's not our precious youth's revolutionary fervor but professional agitators.

[@ranaldrasmussen3900]

Add the cost of clean up to the students tuition

[@madig12135]

Democracy of America of North Korea 😅

[@yota8184]

Go to North Korea then

[@sevilnatas]

@@yota8184 Yikes, can you misunderstand their statement any more wrongly? The point is that they don't want the US to be like North Korea. They want it to live up to this country's ideals. The idea that this country was founded on the right to protest.

[@rudycasss8206]

Haha right we are so like North Korea and nooothing like South Korea were soooooo oppressed

[@sevilnatas]

@@rudycasss8206 Well, I think his point was that North Korea is an authoritarian state and he wants to avoid the US from going in that direction. Do you not agree with that? Do you seriously want the US to be like North Korea?

[@Sophon-fj4fu]

​@@sevilnatas Xi jinpeng bot

[@18wheelerjay]

All the protesters should pay for clean up. Oh no money we will take your scholarship and tuition.

[@gwenjackson114]

Looks like a rats nest

[@Yuhon100]

If you want to protest, do it peacefully.

[@sarahortega5888]

Any of those students getting financial aid, scholarships, or government assistance in any way should pay back every penny for the mess they have created on campus for other students still trying to get an education!

[@annieoakslee]

1000s of lawsuits on the way...

[@bmusicjr101]

Seeing as this is California they should serve actual jail time, and not be bailed out by our VP or the democratic party. This is very real FAFO time.

[@chickadee7659]

California sucks balls😅

[@ghostup101]

Fine them $1,000 each for trespassing. That’s $100,000 for the city. 😂

[@sevilnatas]

Fighting back pretty aggressively? By having shields and put on helmets and didn't leave for a while? In one breathe you say they fight aggressively and the next you only describe them donning defensive equipment and eventually leaving. Where is the aggressiveness? Is this journalism or state propaganda? It's equivalent to saying "the man violently attacked people around him, giving them menacing stares!"

[@stevetye81]

Blocking Jewish students from class and the library and intimidating them is pretty aggressive.

[@sevilnatas]

@@stevetye81 OK, not what we are talking about here, but, technically, that would be passive aggressive, which is not the same thing as what the reporter was communicating. If I stand with my back to you, in a doorway, blocking your entry, that is completely different from me approaching you and punching you in the face, for trying to get in the doorway. By the way, they weren't blocking Jewish students, they were blocking students. It is the same as why it would be disingenuous of me in saying that Jewish protesters blocked students from class and library. Just because a large percentage of the pro-Palestinian protesters are Jewish. Which they are.

[@galinatibirna1894]

Throwing bottles is aggressive. If time given, worse things could have happened. When one throws a bottle at you, please don't move as it is pure love, right?

[@sevilnatas]

@@galinatibirna1894 OK, first of all, my comment was pertaining to this reporters statement and how there was a disconnect between his claim they were fighting back aggressively and the second half of his statement that clarifies the aggression, which had nothing aggressive in it, to support the first half of his statement. Secondly, I am not aware of thrown bottles, I would need a citation for that, also, almost nothing comes in glass bottles anymore and most items within the encampment had to be carried in as a donation, so that lessens the chance that there were glass bottles, even more, and in video coverage of the encampment in prior hours and days, plastic bottles of water were the most prevalent "bottles" seen. So, are we talking about thrown plastic water bottles and were those thrown bottles empty or full? A thrown empty plastic water bottle is essentially nothing and a full one is far less dangerous than a glass bottle. We need backup. As to your claim that "If time given, worse things could have happened.", that is true but also my claim that "If given enough time, things could have gotten better" is equally true and equally irrelevant.

[@jubal1794]

@@galinatibirna1894Oh don’t worry, clearing the encampment will only accelerate worse things happening. You start with the 1st Amendment. In time, you utilize the 2nd.

[@ericlutz7939]

Biggest clown generation ever

[@JayJay-jz3tm]

Women be some parrots 🦜

[@clemdane]

So glad I didn't go there

[@jubal1794]

‘Pile of rubble and debris’ is so disgusting to use when the protest is about actual rubble being made in Gaza

[@10beachbum22]

Remember October 7th

[@jubal1794]

@@10beachbum22 Yes and I also remember today. When Israel killed several children. TODAY.

[@JamesHanna-lw4xw]

Wait, i thought they weren't moving 😂

[@pamelastahl9604]

Well the police went in while everyone was sleeping and attacked the protester. Its on film

[@davelewis9439]

The religion of peace

[@ds8290]

Meanwhile, homeless move in.

[@jubal1794]

So ignorant 😂😂😂

[@Redrider2016]

Thats also what happen in gaza after israel genocide most of gazans and left debrist of their bomb.

[@margaretmedellin9112]

Just like the administration ,college professors and students,their all garbage 😂

[@Bajhhskbd]

You came up with that one all by yourself, didn't you

[@chickadee7659]

School administrators twiddled fingers. Laying bets, smoking cigars, whiie on zoom with governor, mayor, pres. What a joke

[@rashmikathathsara3244]

Climate change

[@nonniewatson4561]

Punks

[@whatiftoday]

The police didn't show that energy at Uvalde.

[@chickadee7659]

Cause we are in California not Texas

[@CPLWeeks]

That's in a different State.

[@paulgallagher5889]

Those who make peaceful protest illegal, make violent protest inevitable.

[@bombpromises]

preventing the movement of jewish students isn't peaceful

[@williamsveen2827]

Far as i am concerned they have volunteered to give up citizenship.

[@red_erick9271]

But they wasn't peaceful soooo

[@red_erick9271]

@bombpromises who do you think? The Muslim transgender antifa acting like babies across this country

[@jubal1794]

@@bombpromisesneither is bombing women and children but you got nothing to say about that do you bigot

[@eastsideterri25]

Good

[@1tommyday]

The college administrators now have a big mess to deal with. Maybe they shouldnt have admitted just anyone to their school. They will eat themselves alive by themselves.

[@miguelmayorquin5485]

Why can’t the cops clean

[@Pea857]

FREE Palestine

[@davidisaacson5993]

Are any of them Americans?

[@Bajhhskbd]

🙄

[@user-jb3xr8co3y]

Thank you Students and Professors. We stand with you. Shame on us and European government complicit Palestinian people genocide. Stop criminal Israël. Stop genocide. Free Free Palestine.

[@10beachbum22]

Remember October 7th

[@TheMirmir225]

Always showing aggression towards peaceful protesters.. this country preaches freedom but who’s that freedom for ?! They pick and choose who it goes to.

[@kowushun24745]

You dumb.

[@kingfreedom1863]

Release the prisoners

[@red_erick9271]

Lol the Muslim trans occupation got got