Meteorologia

  • 01 JUNHO 2024
Tempo
27º
MIN 21º MÁX 28º

At least 2,000 arrested in US college protests

At least 200 protesters were arrested at UCLA today, bringing the national total to more than 2,000 arrests in demonstrations against the war in Gaza, according to a count by The Associated Press.

Notícias ao Minuto

20:45 - 02/05/24 por Lusa

Mundo Israel/Palestina

Protests and arrests have taken place on campuses across the United States, but over the past 24 hours, the focus has been on the University of California, Los Angeles, where chaotic scenes unfolded Tuesday morning as police in riot gear moved in to clear out a sprawling encampment of demonstrators.
Police tore down barricades and began dismantling the protesters’ fortified encampment at UCLA after hundreds of students and activists defied orders to leave, some linking arms as officers fired stun grenades to disperse the crowd. At least 200 people were arrested at UCLA, according to California Highway Patrol Sgt. Alejandro Rubio, citing figures from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Rubio said those arrested were being booked at the county jail complex near downtown Los Angeles and that police were still determining whether to seek charges. Workers moved into the former encampment Tuesday morning and began an extensive cleanup. Bobcats scooped up bags of trash and crews removed tents. Some buildings were tagged with graffiti, the AP reported. Protester encampments calling on universities to divest from Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread to college campuses nationwide. Officials at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, said 29 people were arrested early Tuesday, including students, faculty and others “from outside the campus community.” In New York City, Fordham University officials said 15 people were arrested after they blocked the entrance to a campus building at Lincoln Center. Seventeen people were arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges Wednesday at the University of Texas at Dallas after protesters refused to comply with orders to remove an encampment set up on a main thoroughfare, a university spokeswoman said in a statement released Tuesday. At Yale University in Connecticut, police arrested four people, including two students, late Wednesday after about 200 protesters marched to the president’s house and the campus police department. The university said demonstrators ignored repeated warnings that they could not occupy parts of the campus without permission. The protest group Occupy Yale said campus police were violent during the arrests and gave no warnings. In Oregon, police began removing pro-Palestinian demonstrators from Portland State University’s Millar Library, which they have occupied since Monday. They painted murals inside and overturned or stacked furniture to create barricades. Portland State said on social media that the campus would remain closed because of police activity. Meanwhile, the University of Minnesota reached an agreement with protesters to close down an encampment on its Minneapolis campus, following similar deals at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago and Brown University in Rhode Island. Protests have also taken place off campus. In Albuquerque, about two dozen demonstrators sat in the road Tuesday, blocking the main gate to Kirtland Air Force Base. The group waved flags and vowed to “shut it down” over the ongoing war in Gaza. President Joe Biden has defended the right of students to protest peacefully but has decried the unrest of recent days. Israel has denounced the protests as antisemitic, while critics of the government in Tel Aviv say it uses such claims to obscure its abuses in the Palestinian territories. While some demonstrators have been caught on camera making antisemitic remarks or threats of violence, organizers of the protests — some of whom are Jewish — say they are a peaceful movement standing up for Palestinian rights and protesting the war. On Tuesday night, police cleared out a building occupied by protesters at Columbia University in New York City, breaking up a weekslong sit-in that had become one of the most visible protests. The backdrop for the protests is the Israeli military’s offensive in Gaza, where more than 34,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed in the past six months, leaving the territory in a severe humanitarian crisis. The Israeli offensive is a response to rocket attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which since July has killed more than 1,100 people and injured about 250. See Also: Protesto na Universidade da Califórnia continua apesar de confrontos (Portuguese version)

Recomendados para si

;
Campo obrigatório