Pro-Palestine protesters take over UCLA in a day of chaos – setting up lines of battle with wooden shields, threatening university bosses and leaving cops bloodied

Two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested during a day of chaos at UCLA, where officers and students clashed well into the night.

One officer suffered a hemorrhage cut on his forehead after being hit on the forehead while activists were pelted with pepper bullets and rubber bullets.

Protesters used homemade wooden shields to form battle lines against campus police and later California Highway Patrol troops in riot gear.

A protest leader was dramatically plucked from the crowd mid-sentence while swearing at the “racist police” in front of her, and thrown to the ground.

UCLA Vice Chancellor Michael Beck was chased and threatened by a crowd of protesters as he was escorted around campus by a team of police.

Two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during a day of chaos at UCLA, where officers and students clashed well into the night

The protest resulted in skirmishes between officers and demonstrators. Police said 25 people were arrested around 8 p.m. for refusing to leave.

A protest leader was dramatically plucked from the crowd mid-sentence while swearing at the “racist police” in front of her, and thrown to the ground

The crowd repeatedly shouted “you’re not safe” at Beck and repeatedly moved to attack him, but was stopped by his police guard.

Other videos from the chaotic protest showed masked demonstrators heckling a rabbi, saying they “love Jews but hate Zionists,” and a facilities management employee calling Palestinians “terrorists.”

Police said around 3:15 p.m., about 100 protesters occupied Dickson Plaza with tents, canopies, wooden shields and water-filled barriers.

Videos showed them marching fake bloodied bodies through the area in a “funeral procession” for civilians killed during Israel’s military action in Gaza.

Protesters also threw red food coloring into the fountain and red paint on the Janss Steps leading to the plaza, claiming that UCLA had “blood on its hands.”

Videos showed them marching fake bloodied bodies through the area in a ‘funeral procession’ for civilians killed during Israel’s military action in Gaza

When the protesters were kicked out of one part of the campus by police, they packed up and marched to another part

Police said around 3:15 p.m., about 100 protesters occupied Dickson Plaza with tents, canopies, wooden shields and water-filled barriers.

Police arrived and demanded they disperse around 6 p.m., which they did — only to move to another part of campus, the Kerckhoff patio, and set up again there.

This included tents, canopies and barricades with patio furniture, and activists also stormed nearby Moore Hall and disrupted final exams, police said.

Once again the police were able to kick them out, but the protest simply moved to the courtyard between Dodd Hall and the School of Law.

This was where they decided to make their last stand, setting up barricades with heavy metal furniture and forming lines with their shields.

The protesters were confronted by approximately fifty campus police, LAPD, Culver City Police Department and California Highway Patrol officers.

UCLA Vice Chancellor Michael Beck was chased and threatened by a mob of protesters as he was escorted around campus by a team of police.

Police lined up against organized demonstrators who shouted at them through loudspeakers

Scenes resembled a battle from late antiquity as the two sides pressed against each other in the streets, courtyards and alleys around that part of campus.

Protesters chanted: “No justice, no peace, no racist police.”

One video showed a small group of protesters trapped between two hedges and two lines of police, being arrested because they did not know where to retreat.

During the same confrontation, video showed a police officer being hit in the head by a protester, whom he quickly chased and tackled.

The protest degenerated into skirmishes between officers and demonstrators. Police said 25 people were arrested around 8 p.m. for refusing to leave.

Police begin pushing back against a line of protesters carrying wooden shields

They were issued citations for intentional disruption of university activities and were banned from going near UCLA grounds for 14 days.

“As a result of the unauthorized and unlawful encampments at the three locations, the group damaged the Shapiro Fountain, spray-painted brick walkways, tampered with fire safety equipment, damaged patio furniture, stripped the wire of electrical fixtures and vandalized vehicles,” police said. so-called.

The arrested students were held in Dodd Hall during their trial, prompting many of the remaining activists to move there.

They crowded around the entrance of the building demanding the release of their “comrades”, reformed the battle lines and skirmished with the police.

“We just want you to free our people,” one protester shouted. Another added: “There’s a genocide going on and you’re arresting and assaulting students!”

A protester is dragged into Dodd Hall after his arrest

Protesters sit on the ground after being arrested, waiting for tickets

The arrested students were held in Dodd Hall during their trial, prompting many of the remaining activists to move there

Seconds earlier, the protester with the megaphone was suddenly picked out of the crowd and arrested

During this part of the protest, the woman was suddenly arrested by police while abusing them with a loudspeaker.

During the night, a rabbi filmed himself being threatened by masked protesters.

Someone called him a ‘f**king pedophile’ and told him to ‘go back to Poland, Ukraine, where you really f**king come from’.

One of them wore a hat with the text ‘1492’, a reference to the year in which Jews were forcibly expelled from Catholic Spain.

The chaos continued for hours until protesters finally dispersed shortly after midnight when police fired rubber bullets and pepper bullets.

During the night, a rabbi filmed himself being threatened by masked protesters