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Police arrest multiple pro-Palestinian protesters at UC, Irvine
VIDEO SHOWS: LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS DETAINING MULTIPLE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
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SHOWS: IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 15, 2024) (ABC AFFILIATE KABC – No use USA. No archive)
1. POLICE OFFICER REQUESTING OTHER OFFICERS TO ADVANCE FORWARD AS STUDENT PROTESTERS RETREAT
2. POLICE SURROUNDING RESTRAINED DETAINEE ON GROUND
3. DETAINEE BEING ESCORTED BY POLICE AS MEDIA ASKS FOR A DECLARATION AND STUDENT CAN BE HEARD SAYING (English): “Free Palestine, free Palestine, yes.”
4. STUDENT WITH A MEGAPHONE CALLING ON AN OFFICER
5. POLICE ADVANCING FORWARD
6. STUDENT CONFRONTING POLICE
7. POLICE ADVANCING FORWARD
8. POLICE SURROUNDING RESTRAINED DETAINEE ON GROUND
9. POLICE APPROACHING PROTESTER STANDING ON HIGHER GROUND AND DETAINING HER / OTHER PERSON CAN BE SEEN BEING DETAINED AND CAN BE HEARD SAYING (English) “I was just taking photos.”
10. POLICE RESTRAINING PROTESTER WITH PALESTINIAN FLAG WRAPPED AROUND NECK
11. POLICE ESCORTING PROTESTER WITH PALESTINIAN FLAG WRAPPED AROUND NECK WHO CAN BE HEARD SAYING (English): “I’m not resisting, I’m not resisting, give them the flag, it’s choking me. Free Palestine.” / OTHER PERSON CAN BE SEEN BEING DETAINED
12. POLICE DETAINING PROTESTER WHO CAN BE HEARD SAYING (English): “I was just standing here and I was eating a lollipop and they decided to arrest me for being in the presence of what’s going on in campus, which is really a shame. And there’s 40,000 people (in Gaza) dying.”
13. PROTESTERS ON CAMPUS STAIRS STANDING IN FRONT OF POLICE
14. POLICE AND PROTESTERS SEEN IN BACKGROUND
15. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS STANDING IN FRONT OF POLICE
STORY: Law enforcement officers on Wednesday (May 15) detained multiple pro-Palestinian protesters who were demonstrating at the University of California, Irvine.
Footage from the scene showed police restraining protesters on the ground and escorting them. One of the detainees was bleeding from the nose at the time of his arrest.
Officers from about ten nearby law-enforcement agencies converged on the campus after university officials requested help because protesters had occupied the lecture hall, leading the school to declare it a “violent protest,” police and university officials said.
About four hours later, police had ejected the protesters from both the lecture hall and the plaza that had been the site of the encampment that stood for more than two weeks, according to the university and Reuters witnesses.
The demonstration at Irvine, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Los Angeles, is the latest in a series of campus protests across the United States over the war in Gaza in which activists have called for a ceasefire and the protection of civilian lives while demanding universities divest from Israeli interests.
Police would not release the number of arrests until the operation was over, said Sergeant Karie Davies, spokesperson for the Irvine Police Department, but she confirmed some people had been handcuffed.
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