A newly launched report from the California Freeway Patrol asserts that its officers acted correctly when firing practically 60 rounds of “much less deadly” rounds at pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA in early May, nevertheless it doesn’t present proof to again up the declare.
The one-page report mentioned officers have been “met with assaultive resistance” that included “a number of protesters throwing gadgets, similar to frozen water bottles, bottles containing urine and different unknown fluids, full 12 oz soda cans, items of plywood, wood poles, and varied sized hearth extinguishers.”
A CalMatters review of footage from the protests discovered officers geared toward folks’s heads and fired into crowds. State regulation and coaching tips prohibit these actions, besides when there’s a “menace to life or severe bodily harm.”
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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An individual with a stick is seen after counter-protesters attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, at UCLA. (Picture by Emily Holshouser/Southern California Information Group)
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Opposing sides confronted one another late Tuesday and early Wednesday as pro-Israel counter-protesters tried to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA. (Picture by OC HAWK)
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An individual with a stick is seen after counter-protesters attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, at UCLA. (Picture by Emily Holshouser/Southern California Information Group)
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Opposing sides confronted one another late Tuesday and early Wednesday as pro-Israel counter-protesters tried to dismantle a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA. (Picture by OC HAWK)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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An individual appears out as demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Counter-protesters, proper, confront a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the UCLA campus early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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Counter-protesters, left, attempt to dismantle the barricades on the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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An individual is carried away at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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A professional-Palestinian protester confronts police as demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Police transfer in at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Counter-protesters, proper, confront a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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A professional-Palestinian protester is overwhelmed by counter-protesters throughout violent clashes on the protest encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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A bloodied pro-Palestinian protester is given help after he was beated by counter-protesters on the protest encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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Counter-protesters, left, attempt to dismantle the barricades on the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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Counter-protesters, left, attempt to dismantle the barricades on the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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A crowd management barrier is hurled throughout a violent conflict between pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-protesters on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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A demonstrator sits in entrance of barricades set as much as shield an encampment on the UCLA campus on Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters clashed early Wednesday, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other.(AP Picture/Eugene Garcia)
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An individual is carried away as counter-demonstrators confront a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Violence erupted as protests sweep throughout faculty campuses in America. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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An individual is carried away at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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An injured particular person will get assist at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Police push again as demonstrators a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Police transfer in at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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A protester leans in opposition to a building wall alongside the UCLA library connecting to the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024 in Westwood. (Picture by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Day by day Information/SCNG)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Protesters stroll by way of their pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024 in Westwood. (Picture by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Day by day Information/SCNG)
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Demonstrators conflict at an encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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Counter-protesters, proper, confront a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles early Wednesday morning, Could 1, 2024. Directors referred to as in regulation enforcement officers after violent clashes broke out, a college official mentioned early Wednesday. (Mark Abramson/The New York Occasions)
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An injured particular person will get assist at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA late Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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The person sporting a helmet, gasoline masks, and a makeshift protect with a garbage can Because the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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A whole bunch of scholars outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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A whole bunch of scholars outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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Los Angeles, CA – Could 01: A whole bunch of scholars chant free Palestine outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. .. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Pictures)
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Los Angeles, CA – Could 01: A whole bunch of scholars chant free Palestine outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. .. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Pictures)
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Los Angeles, CA – Could 01: College students march to the other aspect of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Pictures)
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Los Angeles, CA – Could 01: A whole bunch of scholars outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. .. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Pictures)
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Los Angeles, CA – Could 01: A person dances round with a flag from the state of Israel, as folks encompass him outdoors, the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Pictures)
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Protestors collect outdoors the Professional-Palestinian encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Pictures)
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A whole bunch of scholars outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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A whole bunch of scholars outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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A person dances round with a flag from the state of Israel, as folks encompass him outdoors, the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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Protesters lineup outdoors The Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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A person with a flag from the state of Israel waves in a crowd outdoors of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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Protestors collect outdoors the Professional-Palestinian encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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A person is chased out of the world outdoors of the Professional-Palestinian encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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A person is chased out of the world outdoors of the Professional-Palestinian encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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Protestors collect outdoors the Professional-Palestinian encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-Information/ SCNG)
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A whole bunch of scholars protest outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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A whole bunch of scholars protest outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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A whole bunch of scholars outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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A whole bunch of scholars outdoors the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday Could 1, 2024.
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Los Angeles, CA – Could 01: Protestors collect outdoors the Professional-Palestinian encampment on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Could 1, 2024. (Picture by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-Information by way of Getty Pictures)
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A demonstrator sleeps inside an encampment arrange by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Police line up at an encampment arrange by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, Could 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Police enter an encampment arrange by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, Could 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Police break by way of a barrier arrange by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, Could 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Police break by way of a barrier arrange by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, Could 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, Could 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
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A police officer stands below a Palestinian flag after a raid on an encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, Could 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Jae C. Hong)
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Demonstrators conflict with police on the UCLA campus, Thursday, Could 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Ryan Solar)
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Demonstrators conflict at a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA early Wednesday, Could 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. Dueling teams of protesters have clashed on the College of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and utilizing sticks to beat each other. (AP Picture/Ethan Swope)
In response, CHP Director of Communications Jamie Espresso mentioned that officers did certainly face a menace from protesters. Nevertheless, protesters don’t seem to assault or threaten the CHP officers within the movies recorded by CalMatters. No battery or assault prices have been introduced in opposition to protesters.
By regulation, CHP needed to put together a report on using pressure and file it with the Division of Justice. The brand new CHP report echoed what Espresso mentioned in Could. The company additionally denied firing discriminately into crowds.
“This doesn’t construct public belief. The place is the proof?” mentioned Jeff Wenninger, a former Los Angeles Police Division lieutenant who oversaw use of pressure investigations. “They’re sharing their opinion on what occurred however not explaining the rationale of how they acquired there.”
Wenninger mentioned the report doesn’t handle all the factors it’s purported to below the regulation, noting that CHP doesn’t cite something to corroborate their declare that protesters have been threatening lives or severe bodily harm. He referred to as the report “nothing greater than boilerplate.”
Wenninger was one in every of two regulation enforcement specialists who reviewed the footage for CalMatters. He mentioned he didn’t see proof of a menace to life or severe bodily harm, and criticized an officer for improperly firing various bean bag rounds in succession right into a crowd. “Bag rounds are meant for a single goal, used for a person engaged in a violent act, not indiscriminately right into a crowd,” he mentioned.
The report additionally put numbers to the officers’ use of pressure: it says that officers fired 33 beanbags rounds and two dozen 40mm sponge rounds at pro-Palestinian protestors whereas clearing a UCLA encampment. The company mentioned it deployed 240 to disperse the encampment of 800 protestors.
Lorena Gonzalez, who as an assemblymember authored the 2021 invoice that strictly restricted officers’ use of “much less deadly” munitions, has referred to as the police actions “a complete coaching failure by CHP” in response to CalMatters’ reporting.
“Our invoice was a primary try to make sure that crowd management in protests didn’t lead to pointless and harsh accidents,” mentioned Gonzalez, who now heads the California Labor Federation. “It appears to me at first look that the coaching that the CHP deployed to those officers wasn’t adequate, as a result of it seems that there are each violations of the regulation and the violations of the spirit of regulation.”
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