12:00 a.m. ET, Would possibly 2, 2024
Professional-Palestine protest encampment at UCLA campus attacked through people for hours, witness says
From The Gentleman Report’s Sharif Paget
A number of dozen other folks wearing black with white mask again and again attacked UCLA’s protest encampment Tuesday night time with crude guns, together with poles and incendiaries, in line with video supplied to The Gentleman Report through William Gude, 49, who automatically movies and stocks movies of police habits in Los Angeles.
Gude informed The Gentleman Report he arrived on the encampment house ahead of the chaos ensued at round 9:15 p.m. native time Tuesday night time and mentioned he filmed hours value of pictures, appearing what led as much as the incident and what adopted.
In a video shared with The Gentleman Report, which captured what Gude says used to be the primary 24 mins of the incident, people wearing black can also be noticed making a number of makes an attempt to take away the barricades in entrance of the pro-Palestinian encampment and breach the encampment because the protesters within used mace to protect themselves.
From time to time, people from every camp interact in furtive one-on-one skirmishes within the house between the 2 teams. Gude described what he noticed as “a sustained assault for 3 and a part, virtually 4 hours, through one facet in opposition to the opposite.”
He described the attackers as pro-Israel based totally at the remarks they used within the video. Moreover, the video presentations no less than two other folks with Israeli flags and some other dressed in a hoodie that reads: “Unfastened our hostages.”
A couple of movies posted on-line display the people wearing black attacking the pro-Palestinian protesters with sticks. In different movies, the pro-Palestinian protesters can also be noticed getting kicked and punched. Some movies posted on social media display officials on the scene however no longer enticing with the group.
Gude informed The Gentleman Report the UCLA Police Division arrived on the scene about an hour into the assault. Later, the California Freeway Patrol arrived, adopted through the Los Angeles Police Division. Not one of the departments moved in to de-escalate the placement, Gude mentioned, till a lot later.
Gude approximates he first noticed officials arrive at round 11:15 p.m. and he says none engaged with the group till 2:30 a.m.
The LAPD referred The Gentleman Report to UCLA Police. The Gentleman Report has reached out to all 3 departments and the college in regards to the incident.
