Brutal repression of the UCLA Gaza solidarity encampment. Police deployed concussion grenades, rubber bullets and other 'non-lethal' munitions against students, injuring several and arresting hundreds before finally clearing the encampment.

The violence by police against UCLA students last night?

For those hating on #UCLA student freedom fighters:

Why do you care more about how young people are taking action than people dying in Gaza?

Why do you care more about how young people are taking up public space than how they’re being injured by police violence?

In his letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., told us the white moderate “is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice” and said this is someone who “prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”

This was not like this until the cops came and destroyed things. Everywhere they go, it’s violence and destruction.

eric sondheimer The same things were said the to the civil rights protestors in the ‘60’s. Their protest isn’t supposed to make people comfortable. It’s supposed to make people in power uncomfortable to bring positive action to the issue you’re protesting about.

Ida Bae Wells Let's also remember where this terminology came from

Gov. George Wallace called the Selma to Montgomery March a threat to public safety and unleashed the Alabama Highway Patrol.

Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also…

Deputy Sheriff Remin Pineda is charged with two felony counts for fatally shooting David Ordaz Jr.
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Cops are shooting students at UCLA with less lethal munitions. They'd rather shoot kids than stop this genocide.

Just so everyone is clear about what’s going on - yesterday, UCLA allowed nonviolent student protesters to be attacked & beaten for hours by pro-Israel mobs while police watched. Now that the pro-Israel thugs have left, LAPD are violently arresting the student protesters.

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Quite a sight

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To the USC and UCLA students protesting the atrocities in Gaza, you are on the right side of history.

I am sorry your administration & elected leaders, who should be protecting you, have harmed & failed you.

As history has shown, protesting injustice is always the right to do.

COPS TURNING THE ENCAMPMENT INTO A WAR ZONE. THIS IS FUCKING INSANE. 20 FLASHBANGS IN A ROW.

Thank you for centering Gaza Eunisses Hernandez. Hope to see other politicians follow suit and not just stick to the politically safe move of condemning police violence. This is the time for courage, and the movement will have your back.