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Watch stay on Thursday (2 May) as UCLA pro-Palestine protests proceed after a stand-off with riot police.

Law enforcement officers in riot gear massed by the a whole lot on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles after darkness fell on Wednesday in preparation to filter a pro-Palestinian protest camp attacked the night time earlier than by pro-Israel supporters.

The chaotic scenes at UCLA got here simply hours after New York police burst right into a constructing occupied by anti-war protesters at Columbia University on Tuesday night time, arresting over 300 protesters.

Some of the activists on the UCLA campus had been seen donning arduous hats, goggles and respirator masks in anticipation of the raid a day after the college declared the encampment illegal, whereas others chanted “we’re not leaving”.