2024-05-09 02:44:10
Agents in riot gear yesterday dispersed the protesters, who were chanting “Leave them alone” in front of the camp set up at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to dismantle the barricades erected by the groups demonstrating against the war in Gaza.
Helicopters flew over the place. “This is a peaceful protest. There are no counter-protesters tonight, calling the police is something despicable. “The city should support them,” he said. Jack Bedrosian, Los Angeles resident who came to the area to express his support for the students.
The significant police presence around UCLA It came after security forces were criticized for intervening late in the violent clashes on Tuesday night, when some groups of protesters attacked the camp of pro-Palestinian students.
UCLA announced that classes would be remote due to “the emergency on campus” and asked students to avoid the protest area.
The demonstrations propalestinas began two weeks ago at Columbia University, in NY, and spread to at least 60 educational centers in the United States and other countries such as Canada, Australia, France and Mexico.
The president of United States, Joe Bidenstated yesterday that “order must prevail,” in reference to the student protests against the war in Gaza that are shaking the country’s universities and have left numerous detainees.
“We are not an authoritarian country that silences people or stifles difference,” Biden said in a televised speech from the White House. “But we are not a lawless country either,” said the president. /WITH INFORMATION FROM AFP
STUDENTS INSTALL PRO-PALESTINE CAMP AT UNAM
Students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) yesterday set up a camp in support of Palestine and against the bombings in the Gaza Strip, on the esplanade of the Rectory, in Ciudad Universitaria.
The students also call on other universities in Mexico City and union organizations to join. They placed some tents and blankets with the main demands: the breakdown of relations of the UNAM with Israeli institutions and that the Government of Mexico breaks diplomatic relations with Israel. /24 HOURS
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