UCLA resumes ‘limited’ operations after police dismantle pro-Palestinian encampment; Dozens detained

A historic, weeklong protest at UCLA in solidarity with war-battered Gaza was over Thursday morning, May 2, just hours after waves of police in riot gear dismantled demonstrators’ massive encampment outside Royce Hall and detained dozens from a crowd estimated in the low thousands.

By daybreak, some students, a few draped in and carrying Palestinian flags, were returning to the site, but by 8:15 a.m., groups of LAPD officers were clearing them out from the Quad area near the campus’s Royce Hall...