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LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole.

The suspect, identified as Edan On, 18, was taken into custody on Thursday in the city of Beverly Hills and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, the UCLA Police Department said in a statement on Friday.

The man, who police said had no affiliation with UCLA, was reported by local media to be a Beverly Hills High School student.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 83 points 5 months ago

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, testifying Thursday before a U.S. congressional hearing into the protests, said his school should have been prepared to immediately remove the protest encampment "if and when the safety of our community was put at risk."

The violence took place two days after a pro-Israel group, the Israeli American Council, held a rally next to the UCLA encampment, with the council's leader, Elan Carr, urging his supporters to “take back our campuses" from pro-Palestinian protesters. Scuffles broke out between the two sides.

So zionists showed up, said people should attack peaceful protesters, then attacked the peaceful protestors, and days later came back with weapons for a coordinated early morning attack...

So the cops then raid the peaceful protesters?

And the schools take away was "we should have had the cops attack earlier"

Fucking insane.

This is what happens when foreign countries buy both parties and take over our education system. It's no coincidence all these schools are siding with the genociders.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

The problem with peaceful protests is that they attract violent people who attack them. So, TPTB ban the peaceful protestors.

What happens if a select few of the peaceful protestors happened to be armed in places where doing so publicly is legal? The peaceful protestors are protected from violence by a select few exercising their second amendment right to bear arms. Pretty hard to ban those peaceful protestors.

[-] Acrimonious@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

The black Panthers tried that. Not saying it shouldn't be done again but let's learn from what happened to them.

[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

I mean, if nothing else they got Republicans to embrace gun control.

[-] crypticthree@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

The Panthers were systematically killed by the state for a reason. They were an actual threat to the status quo.

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